The other thing about picking a character who is extremely powerful/high level as your story’s protagonist, in a story where you know the main character survives because the story is a prequel, is how are you going to create a sense of suspense in a combat situation?
This is why LOTR being centered around a weak little Frodo as the main character can be so suspenseful
Usually in other stories with a Godlike main character, the suspense comes from protecting the side characters. But the scenarios for these I’ve felt sometimes can be silly. Even choosing to have those much weaker side characters with you unless absolutely necessary is kind of a mistake, because with that much of a power difference a “low level” character is a complete liability
Picture if you had a max level BiS geared p99 char, and you wanted to escort a lowbie through SolA. You wouldn’t tell them “ok fight next to me here and kill as many goblins as you can”. You would say, stay at the ent or way back and I’ll pull every single goblin around and easily massacre them all, then when they’re all dead, you can zip through”
So any story scenario where the OP main character could have said to the side characters “stay back where it’s safe, I’ll go in and wreck all the enemies then you guys come in after everything is dead” is always going to be a smarter approach then bringing them into the fighting and then having to worry about protecting their weak asses
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