He is not a god of wisdom. Look at this description from Deadfire encyclopedia:
My bad, it's been years, dunno why I got stuck on him and "wisdom", maybe the deity thing. Still, the plan
is moronic and arguing chaos as legitimising Eothas working against his own interests is a hard sell, even old D&D 3E charts agreed that "[Chaotic Neutral] is not as likely to jump off a bridge as to cross it."
And yet we see that a god cannot be killed with a big bomb, however cool that sounds.
Kicking the can down the road is still a victory.
Not every story is a hero's journey, and stories have layers. The Watcher has personal stakes - the souls of his people are imprisoned, part of his soul is taken, he is brought back from the dead on the condition of following Eothas - take your pick, roleplay. [...]
But RPGs typically are often monomyths as a matter of necessity, the format requires that developmental curve at a mechanical level and it's fitting that the narrative progression mirror it. If your growth in ability doesn't enter the dimension of the plot thread you're following, it's narratively meaningless (i.e. yes, you're better at smashing Xuarips, and that doesn't matter for shit).
I brought up Cyberpunk 2077 as a comparison because that also reveals its conflict to ultimately be a hopeless struggle, but it works because CDPR's plot is focused on the personal, it's all about V and their way of dealing with their impending demise, not some external, world-changing event. Deadfire, however, is traditionally patterned around the antagonist (Eothas
is that, functionally) and his plan, they are not a mere worldbuilding backdrop for a personal adventure. In fact, it follows very similar beats to BG2's plot around Irenicus, where the PC's despoiled of a part of themselves, they pursue the antagonist to discover his cataclysmic scheme, and then try to put an end to it (even in Deadfire's, sort of, I think Woedica suggests you see if you can "talk him out of it"). The stakes and progression are set up in a familiar way but the agency is missing, and it's not about the outcome itself (the alternative example I gave earlier would still see the Wheel destroyed), but having a part to play. You can't stop him, you can't trouble him along the way, he doesn't have to adapt to your progress, none of it.
The problem with Deadfire as the second in your three-act structure is that the PC and their efforts are
redundant, they don't drive or affect any of the central events - if the Watcher never existed, Deadfire would still play out the same. It's not just that it's a linear story to play through, it's that not even at the writing level does it reserve some meaningful role for the protagonist
within that linearity.
