I'm Past caring lol. It will either be good, bad or passable..
It's been asked and ignored enough times that we will probably find out in the patch notes or after its live now.

I wanted to start in Gridania, So i picked an archer Sotm as it all fitted with the zone/lore.
They then stuck the bow in the UL company (which i think its *badwords* ) it made no sense really, and the justification of spreading things out is very weak imo.

Very odd way to look at it is like the GC's are telling the npcs that protect them to go join the other citys GC's (An yes I'm being silly with that point but it works so meh!)