Originally Posted by saeran
Well, why have the player to look into holes in Gale's plot armor in the first place? If the game over is supposed to represent an explosion, then the writer should keep it logical, and not change how it works depending on whether it is Gale's heroic scene or not.

While I agree, that the orb should only wipe the map you leave his corpse on, I think that generally you can get rid of him the way you like, once the orb is stable. But that's just theory. I recently had him die on me through Yurgir and did neither get a special notice nor the "In Case of Death" quest and there wasn't any necrotic aura either - despite this having been his first death in the save

With those words of maybe wisdom and potential murder incentive back to barely bashful bears.