I am a bit confused with this respecing origin characters too.
I understand that if I respec Astarion it shouldn't affect his origin story too much as he seems like a character who's story is not really tied to him being a rouge. But respecing Shadowheart would mess things up as her ties to Shar are essential to her origin story.
What I don't understand is that bit about influencing our roleplay options and the "story will be ours to create".
Does it mean that if I make Shadowheard a bard then all her story arc won't play out at all? Or it will play out but it will be just messy cause everyone will treat her as a Cleric while all she has to say is Bard dialogue?
My understanding from one of the previous updates is that you will at a minimum lose some dialogue or have dialogue that makes no sense (barbarian gale being treated as a wizard), but quite possible for some characters they will cut significant things. IMO you are much better off leaving them to start as the canon class and multiclassing so that everything works / makes sense.
