Riordan Media/Cupid

**Cupid**, also known as Amor, is the Roman god of erotic love, affection, and desire. He is the lieutenant of his mother, Venus, and is the frequent playmate of Hymenaios and Ganymede. His Greek counterpart is Eros.

## Powers and Abilities

**Roman God Physiology:** The Greek gods are a race of immortal beings who control the forces of nature and human endeavors. As a son of Venus and Mars, Cupid is very powerful. Despite the fact that he is a minor god, his omnipotent romantic allure makes most of the gods fear him.

* **Shapeshifting:** In their natural, fully empowered form, gods are radiant with a divine light so intense that no being less than a god can look upon it without disintegrating to ashes. In order to interact with mortals and heroes, the gods take on a lesser form which can be safely observed.
* **Immortality:** All Roman gods are immortal due to consuming ambrosia and nectar, the food of the gods.
* **Omnipresence:** Gods are able to exist in many places at once as long as their domain is being invoked. When their presence is split between multiple places, they only possess a fraction of their power. They are truly only present in one place when in their divine form.
* **Omnilingualism:** The gods are able to speak multiple languages.
* **Power Bestowal:** Gods can impart their power onto others to create new gods, although with each new god created, the bestowing god loses a small and equal amount of their power.
* **Levitation:** All gods are seemingly able to levitate.
* **Teleportation:** All gods can transport themselves instantaneously over vast distances, sometimes by way of special effects.
* **Telepathy:** Gods are able to hear, see, and or intuitively know the thoughts of lesser beings.
* **Superhuman Strength:** Gods possess extraordinary strength that varies depending on the god.
* **Superhuman Stamina:** Gods possess extraordinary stamina that varies depending on the god.
* **Transfiguration:** Gods can transform other beings into other forms. Hades transformed Leuke into a poplar tree.
* **Power Drawing:** All gods draw most of their power from their sphere of control or domain. They also possess powers and abilities that are unique to their own domain and vary greatly, even among deities that preside over similar and/or overlapping realms.
	+ **Love/Lust Manipulation:** As the god of erotic love, affection, and desire, Cupid has absolute control and divine authority over love, lust, and desire, but not quite as much as his mother. He cannot create love from nothing, but his form of love that he has dominion over seems to be harsher and more enforced than his mother's. This may be due to his father being the son of Mars. He channels his power over love through his golden bow and arrows. Anyone struck with his arrows will instantly be filled with uncontrollable desire and love for another.
		- **Truth Inducement:** Cupid can force anyone to confess their true romantic feelings by shooting them with his arrows. He did this with Nico di Angelo to force him to admit his secret love was for Percy Jackson.
		- **Omniscience:** Cupid has a limited omniscient ability to always know who a person is in love with.
	+ **Beauty Perception:** As the god of desire, Cupid can alter his appearance depending on the perception of beauty of the person or people he is in the presence of.
	+ **Invisibility:** Cupid can render himself invisible in order to unexpectedly assault others with his arrows. He cannot, however, will himself to become invisible while sleeping.
	+ **Astral Projection:** Cupid can project his spirit and/or voice to another location. He did this to briefly communicate with Psyche when his physical body was too weak for him to travel.
	+ **Wing Protrusion/Flight:** Cupid can fly by way of the feathered wings on his back.