God, he is, isn't he?
Damn. Guy grows up an orphan on the cruel streets of NY/LA, circa 2400BC. Does he despair? Fuck no. he learns how to fight and starts working for the personal guard of the biggest badass of his time.
Then he gains superpowers. Does he go power-mad? Nope. Runs off to become a priest of time-traveling assholes? Nope. Dude sticks by his principles, that he developed
on the streets from infancy, and loyally declines a reward from his King, asking only to serve him more.
Does he try to subvert him? Fuck no. He goes to war under him and saves his life and the lives of his soldiers, killing an interstellar abomination along the way. Then he tells his king the truth. And when the king asks him to cut a hand off, does he decline? Kill him? Run away? Nope. He cuts his hand off for the sake of king and country.
More than that, he defeats an entire fortress of fanatical cultists. One handed. Acting as the pincusion for enemy archers so that his men avoid casualties, while climbing up the ladder. One handed. Then his King turns on him.
And when he takes power, does he become a power-hungry tyrant? Nope. gives his client-states a voice in policy, strengthens garrisons and diplomatic relations. When an enemy rolls into his land, made up of undead and space squids/corals, what does he do? Hide, run away? Stay at home with his harem? Nope, charges in headfirst, makes a heroic sacrifice and saves a nation. He is later forgotten.
When an enemy lay begging at his feet, what did he do? He spared it. When he was forced to choose between conquering a nation and saving
one single city, what did he choose? The city. When faced with an overwhelming opponent, maimed and at the edge of his strength, what did he do? He made a heroic sacrifice of powers vs human lives and spent the next ninety years making Egypt more secure for the citizenry. When Aphrodite tried to sway him to abandon a long-time "friend" and ally, he told her where to stick it. When down in Minos' labyrinth, he chose faith in humanity above selfish need.
When faced with his hunger, he chose to restrain it as much as possible, rather than indulge. When he had a choice to risk his life for three children of a barbarian king, he took the risk without hesitation. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, he risked everything to save Egypt from being raped up all three holes by Ares and drew him out to Olympus. Where he proceeded to save the world from Exterminatus.
When he became Emperor, he did his utmost for a stable, developed and educated Empire. And what did he get in return, you ask?
A curse of hunger that slowly devours his goodness from the inside, a sword that, every time it feeds, gets closer to becoming evil incarnate, the hatred of the Masters and a naive, young and stupid Immortal telling him that he is the Devil's older brother, only worse and uglier.
No respect, no love, no rest and no friends, except for a Gieloth that may or may not stab him in the back/tie him down to a lab table (may or may not be to satisfy a kink) when it suits her/him/it. And constantly being the universe's favored chew-toy.
And now, no heirs.
His reaction? Put on a shit-eating grin, crack wise and "Carry on aye-aye, sir!", asking nothing in return but for Man to live and prosper.
indeed.
There would probably be less "Fuck should we go into fuck-if-I-know-where-rift or take a arduous trek all the way to fucking China" worries throughout the subsequent chapter.
. Hence, no breeding program with tentacle waifu. Clearly an inferior world 
