I'd think the reason for the loss of the Titans against the gods was due to the aid of the Cyclopes on the side of the gods... (Zeus received a thunderbolt, a helmet of invisibility to Hades, a trident for Poseidon)

Errr I'd answer yes to the question...

Rather the other way around... though I have found no blood relation between Hephaistos and the Cyclopes yet, or because there is none.   

Yeah... Hephasteus was born after war with teh Titans if I'm not mistaken. Thats when Hera throw him from Olympus because hes so damn ugly!

You call that epic? I think Hades x Persephone is more epic!

he was born fugly.

i feel for old hep. born ugly, despised, got married to aphrodite but she cheats on him with ares.

there's a allusion here about the low rank of shopkeepers and traders and artisans (hep was after all a divine blacksmith) compared to the more martial roles of the other gods.

i named my rugby ball after hep.

No la. Persephone is the daughter of Demeter and Zeus. Hades falls for her and kidnap her. After much negotiations and arrangements, they decide Hades could only marry Persephone if he let her to go out from underworld every 6 months alternately. So this creates Summer and Spring (when Persephone lepak with her mum) and Autumn/Winter when she goes back to Hades.

He turns his sorrow into the art of forging, as do composers and poets turn their feelings into forms or art... So maybe that was why Hephaistos was good in forging?

but he did get to have revenge. on one occasion, hep and another god (maybe hercules) slapped the shit out of ares. dunno what's up win aphrodite.

for a god of war, ares doesnt win all his battles. kind of like war, you win some you lose some.

Yeah... even Athena rejected him... 

Has anyone seen Immortals?