Hephaestus's cabin (#9) is for the children of Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths and fire.
Description[]
The cabin is made of brick and has a smokestack sticking out of it, like a tiny factory or an oversized motor-home.
The inside of Hephaestus's Cabin in the graphic novel
The entrance is like a vault door, circular, and of thick metal. It opens with a lot of gears turning and smoke hissing. It has shiny metal walls and metal slatted doors. It is noted for being unclean and messy, filled with junk and machines often. There is a tunnel underneath it. There are only three Hephaestus demigods at the end of the war with the Titans because of Charles Beckendorf's death. In The Lost Hero, their numbers have risen to about a dozen boys and girls, although none of them look alike.
Leo's bunk in the graphic novel
The steel bunks are folded against the wall and have a digital control panel, blinking LED lights, glowing gems, and interlocking gears. In the graphic novel, the bunks are against the wall and have curtains. Leo's bunk, Beckendorf's old bunk, has a built-in game station at the footboard, a stereo system in the headboard, a glass door refrigerator at the base, and a whole bunch of control panels running down the sides. The beds retract to a private room in the basement. A fire pole comes down from the second floor even though the cabin doesn't appear to have a second floor from the outside. A circular staircase leads down to the basement, power tools, an assortment of weapons, a workbench and a lot of scrap metal.
Known Occupants[]
Leo Valdez, the former counselor
- Charles Beckendorf (former counselor, deceased)
- Jake Mason (former counselor, resigned)
- Leo Valdez (former counselor)
- Nyssa Barrera (counselor)
- Heloise
- Shane
- Christopher
- Harley
Mechanical Items[]
- Chameleon Armor, forged by Charles Beckendorf.
- Festus, the giant automaton dragon.
- Their beds take them to underground private rooms by gears, pulleys, etc..
- Leo's Magical Toolbelt, from which he can pull out regularly-used tools and food.
- Bunker 9 may count as it can only be opened by a fire user, such as Leo Valdez.
- Hephaestus kids can create many types of mechanical items.
Abilities[]
Hephaestus, their father.
- They are all expert builders.
- They are all mechanics.
- Technokinesis: As children of Hephaestus, they can control and manipulate machines.
- Can sense machines, mechanics, or metal.
- Can identify machinery type and use by touch.
- Can sense faults in metal ore.
- Can find and sense traps in the ground.
- Pyrokinesis: Some children of Hephaestus have control over fire, a rare ability that Hephaestus blesses his children with every few hundred years, since the last demigod Hephastus blessed caused the Great Fire of London. The only living demigod with this ability is Leo Valdez.
- Superheated Fire: The ability to increase the heat of his fire to the point that it becomes white-hot and can also create walls of flame.
- Supernova: The ability to increase the heat of fire to such an extent that they essentially become a supernova able to destroy the physical form of a Primordial.The side-effects of using their power in such a way can prove to be fatal : enough to char their otherwise fireproof body, despite their immunity to flames.
- Fire & Smoke Immunity: The ability to be unharmed by fire. Smoke has no effect on their vision or lungs.
- Heat Sensitivity: They can sense heat and flames in the form of thermal vision.
- Superheated Fire: The ability to increase the heat of his fire to the point that it becomes white-hot and can also create walls of flame.
Trivia[]
- Hephaestus' cabin is tied with Apollo's cabin for the most named inhabitants, with 8 each.
- They have the most counselors in The Heroes of Olympus.
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