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Thanks for the answers and the recommendations to clarify my question (since that helps me figure out solutions as well).

My concern is not that readers will be disappointed the human MC didn’t solve the problem. My concern instead is that readers will be left wondering why the deity didn’t solve the problem. Have you ever heard people ask why the eagles didn’t fly Frodo to Mordor in The Lord of the Rings? I want to have a good explanation for why the simple solution didn’t happen.

In some fantasies, deities don’t intervene because they have squabbles amongst themselves or are selfish and don’t care about humans. (Think Greek mythology.) However, that explanation won’t work in my story since The Deity in my story is concerned and powerful.

However, what I think I hear some of you saying is that I ought to look at how God intervenes in our world as an example (such as in World Wars I and II or in “small” everyday miracles), and that maybe I shouldn’t be too scared to use divine intervention in my story.

(NOTE: I obviously have no claims on how God chooses to intervene in our world. I just want to try to be true to His nature in my fantasy world. So it’s more that I as an author am “bound to showing His intervening nature” than that He is “bound to intervene”).