It is easy to dismiss a child, even a divine one.
That is how Cupid was able to survive the sacking of Rome while others of his kind perished.
Cupid fled to the barbaric lands of the north; and it was there that he encountered the new power.
The profane magic slowly ate away at his heart and twisted his mind, leaving him as a hollow shell of his former self.
He now wields the arcane energies to further his new duty.
His new duty is to spread to others what now festers in his dark soul.
