Introduction

Kamadeva and Rati
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Have you ever wondered how Love thinks? 

Or more specifically, how the Indian God of Love, Kamadeva, thinks and feels about the romances of the great epics?

Well, you have certainly come to the right Storybook. 

Follow Kamadeva's innermost thoughts and experience his deepest emotions through a series of his diary entries. Kamadeva has quite a few opinions regarding his friends and their love lives.  To truly enjoy this Storybook there is some background you need to understand about Kamadeva.

1. Kamadeva is the God of Love, and his partner, Rati, is the Goddess of Desire. While the diaries will solely be Kamadeva's perspective, he will often mention Rati and her perception of events. The God of Love and the Goddess of Desire will occasionally have different feelings on the events mentioned.  

2. Legends have conflicting narratives regarding Kamadeva's parentage. Some stories place him as Brahma's son. Others claim that Vishnu fathered Kamadeva. For the sake of consistency in these diaries, you should assume Brahma is Kamadeva's father.

3.  Kamadeva will be writing his diary entries after the majority of the legends about him. Kamadeva sacrificed himself to Shiva's wrath in order to reunite Shiva with the reincarnation of his dead wife and restore order to the world. Shiva incinerated Kamadeva. Kamadeva was later reborn as Pradyumna, Krishna's son. These diaries might reference both events and take place after both. 

4. Kamadeva, at least my Kamadeva, is aware of the existence of the gods of other cultures and interacts with them occasionally. For example, Kamadeva is close friends with the Greek Goddess of Love, Aphrodite, and acquainted with the Greek God of Desire, Eros. 

5. Kamadeva is not omnipotent. He can be surprised just like the reader. The diaries will display a balance of Kamadeva displaying his power over love and emotion and Kamadeva acting as a bystander, witnessing aspects of his friends' relationships when he did not intervene.