The backgrounds usually are too vague to fit any character: They use labels like "Noble" "Criminal" "Charlatan" "entertainer" "hermit" "sage" "Acolyte" etc
I don't doubt this. But that affects the origin characters just as much/just the same, right? All I'm saying is, whatever is being done with the origin characters, give us either the same thing or at least some other equivalent of it. Don't throw up your hands and say, "Sorry this is too complicated and cannot be done, so you players going with custom PCs have to accept something lesser than the origin PCs." I'm sure Larian can find a way to do this, if they're willing to put in the effort to do it.
Also, a couple of you keep mentioning multi-classing. Where/when was this confirmed? This is a hugely important feature for me, and thus far I was under the impression we were NOT getting multi-classing.
