@StormBug said in You will respawn in the last city where you rested:
It should be noted that other than to look at the shrine options, I did not interact with the shrine in the southern starter city at all. Therefore, I believe this must be a bug and I was arbitrarily sent to the wrong city.
You don't have to do anything to the Shrine in the Southern City, because you started the game there, you were automatically soul-bound to that city.
This interactive text popup hasn't changed in 3 or 4 alphas, pretty much since Homes have been added. However, the new situation, as I understand it ,does in fact require you to interact with a Shrine to rebind to a new location. It used to be sleeping at the Inn, but since the shrine was introduced, that's no longer the case.
I could be wrong, but when I interacted with the Starter City Shrine, it did ask me if I wished to soul-bind to the city (mayhaps not using those exact words) which leads me to believe that is the case now.
Remember, during an Alpha Test, the Pop-up text may not get updated in line with new changes. Updating Pop-up text is lower priority, especially if they may be making multiple different test changes, they may wait to update the Pop-up until they get the final result they are after.