The God of Love was the concept of all things beautiful, as well as the act of pursuing beauty. These concepts were collectively known as love.
It could be considered fondness, and it included romantic love as well as the pursuit of beautiful things such as ideals.
Thus, beauty was a concept, not a gender.
The God of Love was now more of a composite of concepts related to beautiful things. Only through the process of pursuing them did the concept of "love" arise.
However, because most life in this world was divided into male and female sexes, the projections of men's and women's pursuit of beauty and their understanding of love would all appear upon the God of Love.
They were not simply intersex, but possessed a gender fluidity shaped by reflection.
When the individual pursuing them desired a woman as the beautiful thing they sought, they became a woman.
If the individual pursuing them was a sow in heat yearning to mate, then before that sow, the God of Love would become a robust boar.
That was the God of Love's fluid gender, producing changes tailored to the observer.
In Naimus's eyes, the God of Love was merely an external thing.
They were like some hybrid composite.
For convenience, Naimus simply called them a hermaphrodite.
Hearing Naimus's term, the God of Love froze. Then they saw Naimus stride right past them as a longsword left its sheath.
It was a divine artifact longsword condensed from divine power.
With a single swing, the Astral Wind blowing in from ahead collided with the blade, releasing a piercing shriek like metal scraping against glass.
The sound utterly shattered the Prayer-Ascendant Angels gathering nearby, their origins unknown. They turned into a mass of energy, dissipated into the Astral Realm, and vanished without