Greetings

Hello and Welcome to Lame Greek Gods.  My name is Hundo Kay, and I will be the host of this here blog.  You may know me as Mick Flaherty from my other blog, EVE - Life in the Hole.

This, however, is a blog for Hephaestus LLC [GROND], an EVE Online Corporation, and it is my hope that some of my fellow pilots will visit, post and provide their perspective on our adventures.

It is our hope that you will enjoy reading about our adventures a fraction as much as we enjoyed experiencing them.

So I would like to take this first post and explain a few thing, like the Title of the blog, the Corp name and the ticker.

Let's start with the Corp name - Hephaestus LLC. No it is not a blood borne disease. Hephaestus is the Greek God of fire and smithing.  What better name for an Industrial Corporation whose goals were to amass a fortune making the ships and modules of EVE. And why the LLC, who wouldn't want Limited Liability.

So how did that industrial plan work out for Sir Templar and his merry band of misfits, more on that in later posts.

Ok, so obviously GROND has something to do with Hephaestus right?  Well no.  As Sir Templar once told me, AEGIS was taken, so he decided to use the name of the battering ram in Lord Of The Rings. This is GROND:

Ok, not the best picture, but it is the battering ram forged in Mordor that shares the name of the Great Mace wielded by Morgoth.

So last, but not least, the Blog Title.

Lame Greek Gods comes from the fact the Hephaestus was, well, lame.  He was born tiny and frail to Zeus and Hera, who promptly threw him from Olympus.  Really who can blame them, they had a reputation to uphold and could not afford Hephaestus ruining the reputation of their cool kids like Ares.

So when Hephaestus was cast to earth he landed and broke his legs, and was rendered lame.  He was taken in by a Sea Goddess and eventually became the world's finest blacksmith.

In the end, Hephaestus returned to Olympus and had many adventures, as did most Greek Gods.  He did however remain the only Lame Greek God.  This unique fact seemed to make a memorable title for our public channel "Lame Greek Gods" and seemed a natural choice for our new blog as well.

In the next few posts, Sir Templar and I will provide a little background on how we came to be where we are today, as well as some of the better back stories in Hephaestus' history.

Thanks for checking up out and I hope you enjoy the reads.

Hundo Kay