What do guardians do?

[Iscah]

Well, since your Character is a direct avatar of Haedelyn, its pretty silly to have a different one altogether.

The god situation in FF XIV isn't very clear anyway. It feels like there are 2000 million gods.

We're not sure about the "direct avatar" thing though. In any case, assuming our character is a "normal human" in the world of Eorzea, there's no reason for them not to have a "normal" patron deity.

From memory, the majority of the population are unaware of Hydaelyn - it's only those with the Echo, and the organisations and researchers that have built up around them, that know She exists.


The "many gods" issue comes from dealing with so many different societies over the course of the game:

- Eorzeans have the Twelve

- each beast tribe has their own primal deity

- Othardians have "the kami" rather than specific gods

- the Xaela have Azim and Nhaama

and then of course we have Hydaelyn and Zodiark, which is going over the heads of most people outside of our circle of major characters.


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I do like the detail of choosing a deity, even if it doesn't actually affect anything - though I'd like the ability to change it somehow, even if it took a Fantasia to do so. One of my characters has shifted from the original concept I had when creating him, so I'd make a different choice now if I could, but he's stuck with it.

[Mizore_Canaan]

I do like the detail of choosing a deity, even if it doesn't actually affect anything - though I'd like the ability to change it somehow, even if it took a Fantasia to do so. One of my characters has shifted from the original concept I had when creating him, so I'd make a different choice now if I could, but he's stuck with it.

If you use a Fantasia you can change it though

[Iscah]

If you use a Fantasia you can change it though

Can you? I only used a Fantasia once but I don't remember having access to the extra customisation bits like their base class.