The World of the Heathens

Name: Uncle Fester (Formally knowns as the Olympian Hephaestus)

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Race: Olympian

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Gender: Male

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Height: 5’ 10” (Olympian Incarnation: 7' 5")

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Weight: 375 lbs (Olympian Incarnation: 750 lbs)

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Eyes: Brown

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Hair: White

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Attributes:

Intelligence: 5

Strength: 4

Speed: 2

Durability: 4

Fighting Ability: 5

            

Special Powers: 

Uncle Fester possesses enhanced strength, speed, agility, reflexes, and endurance.  The bones, muscles, ligaments, and cartilage in his body are extremely dense.  He is highly resistant to injury and can heal from most injuries in a matter of seconds.

 

Special Abilities:

Uncle Fester is a master blacksmith, metalworker, carpenter, and sculptor.  He is mostly known amongst his peers for making all sorts of armaments and robotics.  He was the only person on Earth that could forge weapons from the molten liquid found within a crashed comet.  When this substance would solidify, it became unbreakable and he named it adamant, a designation for anything that was harder than a diamond.  Sharp weapons made from adamant have the ability to pierce the skin of the strongest Olympian, fallen angel, or demon.  The unique molecular structure of adamant will stunt the healing process of enhanced individuals and a correct blow to a vital organ will even kill a god.           

 

Special Weapons: 

Uncle Fester carries a smithing hammer forged from adamant.  To help aid his mobility, he wears an adamant brace on his injured and cursed right leg that is incapable of healing in any lifetime.   

 

Biography:

In a previous life, Uncle Fester was once the Olympian Hephaestus, a smithing god who from his workshop on Mount Olympus made his immortal colleagues magical armor and weapons of mass destruction. 

  

Killed by the fallen angels and the Namatar thousands of years ago, and due to the Karmic Trap, his soul was imprisoned on Earth.  This was a fate all of the Olympians and the other gods that had once walked the planet received after their defeat at the end of the Golden Age.  Rather than return to the heavenly abode, their spirits repeatedly reincarnated into another mortal body upon death.  This cycle remained unbroken for thousands of years.     

 

However, sooner or later, the universe has a way of correcting any unnatural occurrences such as the Karmic Trap.  Perhaps it was divine intervention, or maybe it was just a coincidence, whatever the case, Kismet found himself haunted over several months by a recurring nightmare of a crashing meteor.  Under the impression that he was receiving a prophetic warning, and fearful that whatever the heavens had hurled toward the earth could cause him great harm, Kismet needed to know more about his visions.  After extensive research and with the help of an old friend who could traverse the aether, he concluded that the burning object had either crashed or would crash in the Great Smokey Mountains.  Located in the southeastern portion of the United States, this mountainous region rises along the border of Tennessee and North Carolina.  Following specific landmarks that he remembered from his dreams, Kismet was able to locate a smoldering piece of rock that was about the size of a bowling bowl.  Although the object crumbled when he lifted it, a small piece of stone that could fit within the palm of his hand remained intact.  Unsure of his next move, Kismet decided to return to the farmhouse so he could collaborate with Bubblegum.  When he went to place the object in his pocket, and against his will, the stone forced his hand to move in a northeastern direction.  With his curiosity piqued Kismet allowed the stone to guide his course.            

 

A few days later, Kismet found himself in a small New Hampshire town.  Inside a secondhand shop, he stumbled upon a middle-aged man fixing a broken clock.  To his surprise, the rock held within his grasp began to vibrate violently the closer he got to the repairman.  Under the impression that there was more to this clocksmith than meets the eye, Kismet asked him to have a look at the piece of space junk he had found to see if it held any monetary value.  When the clocksmith took possession of the stone, a sudden jolt knocked the man to the floor.  When Kismet helped him to his feet, it was evident that a fantastical metamorphosis had transpired.  Not only did the frail frame of this middle-aged man fill out as an abundance of muscles were now clearly evident underneath his shirt, but a rush of memories from a past life returned as well.  To Kismet's surprise, the stone was able to break the Karmic Trap.  Even more shocking, the Greek God Hephaestus was standing before him.  No longer ensnared by the repeating cycle of depression and despair that had a grip on him for thousands of years while he remained trapped in one mortal body after another, Hephaestus happily thanked Kismet for finally freeing his soul. 

 

Although the godly attributes Hephaestus once possessed quickly returned along with his fit frame and great intelligence, for some unknown reason, the stone could not restore the grand height he had once possessed.  Much to his chagrin, Hephaestus remains the same size as he was while living life as a mere mortal.