Originally Posted by branmakmuffin
Originally Posted by Darth_Trethon
Shadowheart's entire origin story is intrinsically tied to her being a Cleric of Shar so if you respec her into a paladin then her entire story will no longer make sense.
I was in part joking, but in part not because there's not much difference between a cleric who adheres to Deity X and a paladin who adheres to Deity X in my view (or a warlock who adheres to Deity X, either, for that matter).

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Shadowheart, Will, and Gale at least you should never respec into other classes. Though in general, respecing origin characters is a bad idea. If you want a Paladin in the party and you don't want to play one yourself you could recruit Minthara.
I assume it will not be possible to muiti-class companions, but let's pretend it will be, for the sake of discussion. In this hypothetical discussion, there is no "should" anything.
Multiclassing(assuming it's possible for origin characters) is more of a gray area and it depends how heavy you go into other classes too, but it creates a similar situation to respec where it's more like "Well Shadowheart technically still has one level in Cleric of Shar" but if we're being honest no, she's not really much of a cleric.

Also the problem with saying you could interchange Cleric, Paladin, and Warlock is bad...warlocks generally do not serve gods for the most part, while Paladins and Clerics do, so that's one important distinction...Wyll could not be a Cleric or Paladin and still have the same patron or for his story to still make sense. And then Shadowheart beyond obviously not being able to be a warlock could not he a Paladin because there is no Paladin of Shar subclass in the game...wouldn't work.