Get to know the history that inspires the characters in our American Gods History Primer series. Who Vulcan, a.k.a. Hephaestus in Greek mythology Vulcan is the first god we’ve encountered in ...

He’s a black man in a small town in the South ... Depicted as a blacksmith like the Greek god Hephaestus, Vulcan is the god of volcanoes and metalworking. So, unlike the regal nature of Odin ...

The Vulcan—its name borrowed from the Roman god of fire—was created by A.V ... And it got a last turn in the limelight in 1982 with the five “Black Buck” raids on the Falklands.

Vulcan is an uneasy and dangerous character on American Gods, a god who inspires his followers to worship guns and fall into boiling industrial vats with smiles — and if you want, you can visit ...

isn’t a New God — in this week’s American Gods, and he’s seriously gunning for Shadow and Wednesday. Sure, at first glance, Vulcan seems like your average gregarious, friendly bullet ...