To answer your question, yes. Now, to comment on the main story without spoilering anything.
The "issue" with the main story is that it makes it very, very clear that you're The Hero. Everyone is eventually going to recognize you as such. As far as MMOs go it's pretty interesting; There's no Wunderkind NPC to look up to. You're the wunderkind the NPCs look up to. This leads to an obvious problem when interacting with folks in the world.
A lot of roleplayers acknowledge the events of the main story without placing themselves there. Hearing about such-and-such happening in Limsa Lominsa isn't the same as having been the catalyst for it. There's also a fair few of us who found roles and just latched onto them. This board is full of folks playing what I like to think of as Heroic Mortals; The sorts of every day folks who never got the Call to Greatness but are on stand-by. There's a good number of outright-heroes, too - The sorts of folks who ARE above and beyond what a normal person would be capable of.
There's nothing wrong with having untapped power as long as you don't write yourself into being the Chosen Vessel of All That Is Healing. There's nothing wrong with having a knack for new skills, either; "Aether" is Eorzea's catch-all magic plot device. It's possible your farm girl just so happened to be naturally bountiful with it and once she starts training she excels quickly.
Ultimately, you'll find people playing at whatever "Power Level" you ascribe to, so don't worry too much about that.
The "issue" with the main story is that it makes it very, very clear that you're The Hero. Everyone is eventually going to recognize you as such. As far as MMOs go it's pretty interesting; There's no Wunderkind NPC to look up to. You're the wunderkind the NPCs look up to. This leads to an obvious problem when interacting with folks in the world.
A lot of roleplayers acknowledge the events of the main story without placing themselves there. Hearing about such-and-such happening in Limsa Lominsa isn't the same as having been the catalyst for it. There's also a fair few of us who found roles and just latched onto them. This board is full of folks playing what I like to think of as Heroic Mortals; The sorts of every day folks who never got the Call to Greatness but are on stand-by. There's a good number of outright-heroes, too - The sorts of folks who ARE above and beyond what a normal person would be capable of.
There's nothing wrong with having untapped power as long as you don't write yourself into being the Chosen Vessel of All That Is Healing. There's nothing wrong with having a knack for new skills, either; "Aether" is Eorzea's catch-all magic plot device. It's possible your farm girl just so happened to be naturally bountiful with it and once she starts training she excels quickly.
Ultimately, you'll find people playing at whatever "Power Level" you ascribe to, so don't worry too much about that.
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