Hello there I found a mistake in the text so I thought I'd provide a screenshot.
Furthermore I was on the level where I had to rescue two lizardmen that were being attacked. I was really far into that map but I forgot to move my spearman woman Harriet. She got caught out and killed. All of a sudden she spoke her final words despite me playing on the easy difficulty where characters can't die. Perhaps she is the exception? Anyhow upon her death the game immediately skipped the rest of the battle and I got to the cutscene after the battle. I was like: Huh?
This is definately something you should look into. Not only do I not like characters dying permanently. I don't like random level skipping either. =P