The canon Greek mythology tells two different origins for Eros. In the most known, he is the whimsy son of Aphrodite (and probably of her many-times lover, Ares). Depicted as a winged youth or child with bow and arrows, he spreaded love and desire (and hate) among mortals apparently randomly, and caused many prohibited passions. He is sometimes represented as blindfolded, since “Love is blind”; that is, it has nothing to do with reason and you can’t choose who to love based on convenience or class. In a society where love and marriage were distinct businesses, Eros was a force to respect but be wary of.
In Hesiod’s Theogonia Eros is instead seen as a primary cosmic force, born as the same time as the Mother Earth Gaea and necessary for the order of the universe. This double tale later lead the philosopher Plato to say that there were actually two different gods called Eros: one representing “sacred” love and one representing “mundane” love.
The Romans called the god “Amor” (“Love”) or “Cupido” (“Desire”; in English, the same word became “cupidity”), and almost always represented him as a child, except when the novelist Apuleius told the story of Cupid’s love for Psyche.
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Eros/Cupid (CG)
Favored Weapon: shortbow
Sacred Animal: hare
Symbol: bow and arrow
Sacred Color: pink
Domains: Chaos, Charm, Community, [Fertility] Good, Trickery
Subdomains: Azata, Family, Friendship, [Generation], Love, Lust, Revelry
Druidic Domains: Swan
Inquisitions: Conversion, [Emotion], Fervor, Reformation, Zeal
Mysteries/Spirits: Ancestor, Heavens, [Passion], Nature, [Sacred Body]
Witch Patron: Enchantment, [Fertility]
Variant Channeling: Art/Music, Beauty/Love/Lust, Contracts/Oaths, Freedom, Sexuality, Weapons
Clergy: bards, clerics, inquisitors, oracles, shamans, skalds, warpriests, witches
Spells: charm animal (all clergy members can prepare/learn it as a 1st-level spell); charm person (all clergy members can prepare/learn it as a 1st-level spell); matchmaker (witches can prepare it as a 2nd-level spell; clerics, inquisitors, oracles, and warpriests can prepare/learn it as a 3rd-level spell); reckless infatuation (bards and skalds can learn it as a 1st-level spell; witches can prepare it as a 2nd-level spell; clerics, inquisitors, oracles, shamans, and warpriests can prepare/learn it as a 3rd-level spell).
Unique Summon Rules: erotes (summon nature’s ally IV)
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