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 == History ==
-The original Love Potion was a biochemical formula developed by the Crew's [[Cupida Hartnell|Creator]]. However, the formula was misplaced early on by the [[Prefect]] of the [[Department of Chemistry]], [[Mandragora-257|#257]]. Subsequently, the goddess [[Aphrodite#In the Prime Universe|Aphrodite]] herself kept the Cupids supplied with a purely magical substitute with identical effects. The interchangeability of the two forms of Potions puzzled the [[Department of Philosophy]], the [[Department of Wizardry]] and the [[Department of Theology]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (short story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'')
+The original Love Potion was a biochemical formula developed by the Crew's [[Cupida Hartnell|Creator]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (short story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'') based on a formula she had acquired from her colleague in the [[First Horde]], [[Irving Scarper]]. Scarper's creation was “a substance which could genetically override a subject’s brain and cause them to feel any pre-programmed emotion in immense quantities”; after refining the substance to produce more specific mental conditioning proved impossible, Scarper had discarded the invention as useless, with, ironically enough, the brainwashing machines built by the Creator proving rather more suited to the Horde's purpose. Scarper thus thought nothing of trading away the formula to his colleague in exchange for her building him [[The Ancient One|a robot assistant]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'')
+However, the formula was misplaced early on by the [[Prefect]] of the [[Department of Chemistry]], [[Mandragora-257|#257]]. Subsequently, the goddess [[Aphrodite#In the Prime Universe|Aphrodite]] herself kept the Cupids supplied with a purely magical substitute with identical effects. The interchangeability of the two forms of Potions puzzled the [[Department of Philosophy]], the [[Department of Wizardry]] and the [[Department of Theology]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (short story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'')
 During the “[[Great Arrow Crisis]]”, the Cupids were temporarily reduced to lobbing bottles of Potion at their targets in the hope that they'd break on impact, which was cumbersome and only occasionally effective. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat (short story)|The Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat]]'')