How to terminate the sick villagers in Kausos and save the lives of many

[CompanyofHeroes_thankSpielberg]

Hi,

I tried Assassin's Creed Odyssey several times in the early 1/4 of the game. So I played several times the Kausos mission (mission is called Blood Fever). I always chose to save the villagers.

However, I learned by reading game guides that if you spare their lives, they will die anyway and infect a large swath of the island, and thus kill a large portion of the population with the disease.

So I decided I am going to terminate the sick villagers, to prevent the disease from spreading.

Am I supposed to do that while Phoebe is initially talking to me about the blood fever, and in the conversation options, choose "This does not concern me", and the sick family is assumed to be killed by the authorities? I think there is a conversation option like that, may be worded somewhat differently.

[Deaf]

There's actually no proof, that Kynna and her parents, having or spreading BloodFever.

Assuming you rescued them. Phoibe and Kassandra/Alexio kept living, although MP shook hands with the father and Phoibe standing right next to them.
Further the father told himself, they should visit the doctor first to get appraised/cured.

There's also another part which confirms that they are still alive: When you visit the Pythia in Phokis, if you rescued them, she's gona tell you, "the child and her parents are still alive".

Objectivly the plague could have spread through visitors, goods, other villagers who escaped.

EDIT:
Another option is to skip the mission, ends up with the family being executed off-screen and the plague still spreading.

[CompanyofHeroes_thankSpielberg]

But if you want to kill those people by your actions, are you supposed to converse with Phoebe to do it, or go to Kausos and talk to the authorities (there are 3 armed persons there)? Can you even talk to the three armed persons in Kausos, or you can only fight them?

[Deaf]

Like you typed, you got to talk with the authorities.

I saw you feign ignorance in Kausos. You let an unknown sickness govern your decisions. Innocents died thanks to you.

[longjohn119]

Originally posted by Deaf:

There's actually no proof, that Kynna and her parents, having or spreading BloodFever.

Assuming you rescued them. Phoibe and Kassandra/Alexio kept living, although MP shook hands with the father and Phoibe standing right next to them.
Further the father told himself, they should visit the doctor first to get appraised/cured.

There's also another part which confirms that they are still alive: When you visit the Pythia in Phokis, if you rescued them, she's gona tell you, "the child and her parents are still alive".

Objectivly the plague could have spread through visitors, goods, other villagers who escaped.

EDIT:
Another option is to skip the mission, ends up with the family being executed off-screen and the plague still spreading.

It doesn't matter if you save them or not and that's easy to prove because if you go back later in the game to that location you will find the man and woman's body (but not the children's) If you let them be killed the dead bodies will be there if you go back after going to Athens, If you let them live the bodies will still be there if you go back after going to Athens because they dies from the plague. Also if you completely ignore that quest then the plague spreads to the whole island and you will find the husband and wive's bodies there. Basically no matter what you do they die and you will find the two dead bodies there (This was confirmed by the developers)

Here is a better question ..... With all plagues some people don't get sick but still become carriers of the disease. So the question is "Did Phoibe or Kassassndra/Alexios carry the disease with them to Athens and cause the plague there?"

Here is an interesting interview with the developer that wrote that quest and others in Odyssey as well as several quests in The Witcher 3. At about 25 minutes in he talks about choices and this quest and at 40 minutes he gives some interesting background on Phoibe and why she was included in the game.

https://youtu.be/M-MQl2woQGk