Well, after death that tadpoles usually crawl out of the body, we have seen so often enough. Even squashed at least one.
So, theoretically spoken, our tadpoles should crawl out of us with every death. (We also have Withers who resurrects us for 200gold).
Yet no tadpole emerges when we die, not even after a permanent death like when you kill Astarion with a stake. He is not resurrectable, yet no tadpole.
Gales story has a twist with his death...normally the tadpole should also come out then.
I have seen no explanation for this and can only imangin "fate" as one. Which is pretty lazy.
Also, when falling out of the Nautiloid, something saves our live. Maybe the tadpole? Why does this happen only once? With the actual incapacitation mechanic we could easily be transported back to camp with 1HP when dying on the road. That would make more sense when what we have now.
So there are a few small holes everywhere
