If you kill Astarion permanently, it leaves ... if you kill Lae'zel permanently, it leaves ... if you kill Shadowheart permanently, it leaves ... there are cutscenes for each and every one of them.
Ah, well, that's new to me, and I've not seen that.
That’s interesting. I have never seen that happen either. May I inquire what does it take to kill a companion permanently? The closest I got was stabbing Astarion with a pole and his body would just lie in the camp till the end of time. I assumed it is impossible to permanently kill a companion. Is it tied to sequences when they are not accepted into the party?