So its been a bit and in that time i decided i didnt really like how aphrodites design came out, and with a song inspo I redesigned him AND gave him a son!
The song hold them down from epic is what inspired the son being added.
More or less while he was with the old faith, his followers took issue that he didnt take a husband and chose one of the suitors at random and had a son with them, though the son was less about appeasing the people and more because he did genuinely want a child, their name being Eros. Once the husband passed, he was a piece of work, the followers were up in arms saying he needed to remarry so he instated an impossible challenge to try and get them to knock it off. It worked for a little while, however they grew restless and made a plan. Kill the heir, steal the crown, take what they thought was owed them from Aphrodite. The first part succeeded, they got him while he was on they way home from an exploration trip he went on, however before the next could start a scorpion follower overheard the whole plan and informed aphrodite. Once he heard, he went beserked and massacred all involved, which ended up leaving most of his following dead.
While he did inform his siblings of what happened, he still had a difficult time facing them after the incident which was partially what caused him to break off and form his own cult.
The scorpion follower that helped him, which will be designed soon, ended up staying with the old faith and became a high ranking person in Silk Cradle until they died of natural causes.
Eros is based off the tree bumble bee