Reviewer: DcZ Signed 
Date: August 15 2022
Title: Chapter 2: A Taste of Power
Oh yeah time ill tell if it was worth it. Hopefully magic grows with usage and time. (and sorry everyone for the long review)
With what kinds of people Zenovia’s followers were, some obviously there the Big Band Evil Guy/Gal(BBEG) of some people's adventures, and all the way down to the cult that runs a brothel or something. What interesting conflicts or interactions between them and the other deity(ies) of love or similar, back when they were more common.
There's gadda be some full sapient(more inclusive and expansive than human) sacrifice rituals in there that he and others obviously couldn’t do, legally at least, and cause Vann would die. But two could be comoed, in a ritual circle crushing a shrunken men with high heeled shoes makes the high heels no longer cause any balance concerns, running in a stiletto on a muddy battlefield would then the possible and only left to the person's own skill or balance. Crushing them inside the shoes makes the shoes perfectly fit and perfectly comfortable, and probably make it so the wearer and Zenovia has controls of the inside so tinies can be held inside, like what Eletha is doing but better in every way, more convenient, or give more options. Subject as well to the quality if the footwear and now of Zenovia’s iconography is on it, and what she thinks of it. Also another one of crushing under barefoot to give some super agility, dexterity, divine sure-footedness, or never-ending perfect food health. And probably some other version that uses women, cause some be traitors and heretics or such (better to have a way of dealing with such, maybe something only Vann can see, cause he’s choose), or just women were used, Female Domination can be a female dominating another female too. So the sacrificing of both a man and a woman in those rituals, 6 men and 6 women, was ultra overpowered to whoever managed it. (and IF that's the case, the enchantments Zenovia’s book has for these (when the sacrifice rituals aren’t used, or instead use a tiny as a constant source of power) might be interesting to compare with normal balancing, sure-footed etc. footwear enchantments that are used, or that nobles use because they can)
Or some rituals might get some maxing out or bonus from being done to a death. Probably highly variable, only some, and it is probably Zenovia’s call at that point.
And there could also be similar rituals for boobplate, bikini plate, and others. Maybe some done in a ritual circle (or shape), or a piece with a different effect applied, prevents true death within that aria, so some of the rituals could get real nary without real death, but cannot do the sacrifice rituals (cause no death). Or a building enchantment that shrinks men on some premises or aria or building. Or allows for the shrinking and growing of space, a more conceptual way of making bags of holding or TARDIS spaces. Far from real spacial magic and what it can do, but just good enough.
More back to what some her followers did, some noble lady and her the female members if her clan, did the high heels and various clothing ritual on their entire shoe collection and wardrobes, and with their maids and servants too, got taken down by someone, or maybe the place got cursed, so there useful materials from that mansion or castle, and some of their shoes and such are artifacts laying around. Or a female knight made an order and they used her enchantments for their armour. Or an all female merc/bandit band, ambushing caravans and even having princesses or queens for ransom, besides the men. And with all the other leftovers of Zenovia’s followers from back when. Probably even some hidden valley or place that a follower teleport shrunken villages and a city or two to play goddess with, heresy probably but Zenovia was asleep, and maybe that follower died, and now its a tiny land with several tiny kingdoms.
With being 500 feet (152 meters. 300 ft is as tall as the statue of liberty, so 500 is tall) of Embiggen (besides what stories or records say back they’ve happened), and depending on how big dragons are(if they exist, from just DND kins, or bigger (thought hopefully not as big as Ancalagon the Black), you know some of her followers use her rituals and spells on dragons (or tried). Cause they could use Embiggen to maybe stuff a dragon down their underwear, or shrink them for the same and use them for even more power. Or a female dragon decided to try Zenovia out, the whole politicking/drama between the dragon god(ess) and her when their domains or followers overlap/interacted would be an interesting story, if it ever gets motioned or involved (besides the dragon one, deities or smithing or craft, and the one of love/sex for the brothel thing. so many) . If Embiggen increases size by scale and not to a size, a dragon or existing giantess might try these. Whatever happened to the ones that did.
Two, more practical things: first, with dragons as an example, and other races might not be mammals, for females don't have boobs, and I can guess Zenovia likes those. So some "womanizing" (by humanoid standards) ritual might be a thing if she deems it needed for that follower. For lizards, insectoids, fish/aquatic that aren't' mermaids, maybe dryads/trees (depending), or even non-humanoid sapients. Goda think of theses things as a diety, can't be too exclusive.
The second one is that since its female domination, then Zenovia had to have rituals, or a few, for shen women wanted to have children but not have men involved. Either between two, bick one or the other both to have kids. Or be a "virgin" birth (of course it won't be, this godess loves sex), or some bigger one what brings Zenovia directly to help, makes some charecter creator like dream for the daughters(s). Or and orgy ritual needing at a bare minimum 10 women, whatever it does, And maybe some particular for sons and such, have to keep up the populations of both. Perhaps the two-women-mating ritual or spell was taken after an all female noble family or two had it for a while, Zenovia's influence was removed, and now is something for the court physician and mages of royals and nobles houses have just in case, cause it's not a bad precousing is two houses are need to marry and only daughter are available, or two women fell in love but an heir is still needed. Noble dynastic arranged marriage management, probably pretty boring in the end.
Well this was another long one, hope it gives food for thought. (Again, sorry to anyone reading the reviews and seeing this thing)
Author's Response: Zenovia is probably more of a chaotic neutral aligned deity than outright evil. I like to think she intended her followers to do good in the world but just got caught up getting horny watching all the chaos they were causing. Her followers definitely ended up as villains in plenty of other people's adventures.
As you said for obvious reasons Vann doesn't want to do any of the lethal rituals lol. That said Zenovia has plenty of enchanted artifacts floating around which we will see later in the story. Also Zenovia definitely accepts women dominating women as part of her worship, though men are her preferred targets.
Zenovia can probably do all things to help out if a woman really desires not to have a man around, that said bigger rewards demand bigger service.
