I found that interesting too. I wonder if all of the, formerly piratical, nobles of Baldur's Gate will talk like that, or if the rich kid took up a bit of mockney to fit in. I think the second fits his story a bit better.
Well, I guess there has been plenty of time for noble accents to shift since Astarion’s time, but yes I was assuming Wyll had changed his accent to fit in with first his low connections and then the common folk, too
. Whereas urchin Shadowheart has adopted a more "cultured" accent to better manipulate the powerful upper classes, perhaps?
Though it’s also possible that we can’t draw any conclusions from accents in BG3 at all, and there’s no neat mapping between accents in the game and origins. I know that conventionally upper class folk in Baldur’s Gate have tended to speak with posh English accents, but I’m not particularly wedded to there being any consistent correlation here. And I’ve no idea if any of that carries over to other localisation options!
