The Cyclops was once an aspiring blacksmith who always gave it his all. Although he was very skilled, he was always second best to his rival. He was too proud of his own skills to ever admit that ...

The Blacksmith's Daughter! The town of the Cyclops appears for a single day once every three hundred years, on an island lost to cartographers. On this Day of Alignment, the town rises and sets ...

One suggestion is that the legend of the cyclops came from blacksmiths, who would often wear an eye patch in their dangerous jobs, so that only one eye would be blinded if something went wrong.