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Yeah, the two entirely separate entities logic makes perfectly good sense, so I agree that it's highly unlikely I could go back and re-recruit him from the cave. Hopefully Chaospread is remembering correctly and Korgrak will simply reappear with the permanent hirelings if he dies during an attack. If I do kill Korgrak's "double" after recruiting him and he should die during an attack on the keep, I'll be sure to post what happens to him afterwards here. Thank you both so much for the replies!

Per the wiki, you can kill Korgrak after recruiting him to get the best reward for the quest "A Farmer's Plight" and he'll still show up at the keep. My question is, if you kill him after recruiting him, what happens if he dies during an attack on the keep? With guest hirelings, you have to wait until they randomly appear at the keep to re-recruit them if they're slain. I'm hoping that he'll simply reappear in the keep like the always available hirelings, but fear that I may have to travel back to Grisly Cave to re-recruit him if he dies, which would be impossible if I've killed him. Does anyone know how this would play out?

I know this is a very late response, but I just joined the Obsidian community. I'm somewhat of a newbie to Pillars of Eternity, and I'm not sure what you mean by cones/crinkles/waffles, but I think you're trying to figure out what determines which loot drops from enemies. I don't know if there's a difference between the PC version and the Switch version (the version I'm playing), but I'm pretty sure that loot is determined on the death of enemies. I've noticed that loot drops change depending on the exact spot that you kill an enemy. For instance, in Od Nua, I've encountered Swamp Slimes that may only drop an ooze plasma in one spot, but in other spots the same Swamp Slime drops 2 Topaz, 2 Diamonds or 2 Ta Ondra Tara. And the spots of the kills don't even have to be that far apart to get a different result. As far as to how loot luck works on a technical level though, I have no idea. I hope this helps.