Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
The PC is not a literal god. S/he is the fragmented reincarnation of a precursor famed for their strength and generosity upon whom some gods were based, but even Azem was not a literal god (in fact current signs suggest there is no such thing as a true god in the XIV universe, despite the known Ancient true names all being Olympian deities). The PC has simply inherited Azem's strength and generosity, and uses it to help others across the world(s) as his/her ancient incarnation did.

Reducing the power level is not an easy thing to do. Once you're effecting things on a given level it's difficult to narratively regress from that scope. WoW tried to do it with Battle for Azeroth, but among the many problems plaguing the expansion was how you went from fighting the literal legions of Hell to dealing with relatively low-key problems and kicking around the other faction. A hero whose strength was lent to ending the threat of the Burning Legion forever is way too powerful to call on for dealing with a witch coven in the woods, yet lo and behold that's exactly what ended up happening. (The whole faction war was only a thing because the writers were willfully ignorant of the Alliance gaining command of a starship!)
Yes, we're a fragment of hero from a race with arguably godlike powers compared to normal people. A fragment that is also much closer to being whole than the fragmented people we interact with. A fragment of a person who's memory lives on as a god to the Au Ra and a god of the Twelve and who knows what else, so I think it's fair to consider our character on a level beyond everything we interact with.
As for toning down power, I already gave a solution. In cleaning up the Ascian problem and Zodiark once and for all we could sacrifice whatever power it is that makes us the best at everything. As someone mentioned above, people could already accept us being relatively more normal during Heavensward. The only thing making it worse is continuing the DragonBallZ-esque villain structure we've been using.
Regardless, if you like it how it is, that's fine. These are my own complaints and I'm not saying they're any more valid than your own. Just that there are options available if they wanted to travel that path and that I would personally prefer it.