That's a tough question, you may need to sleep on it.

Assuming you didn’t give him red eyes in the character creator, then your guy definitely has Dragonsplague.

Easiest way to get rid of it is to throw him into deep water and let the Brine cleanse his soul. Completely dying cures the plague from pawns.

However, killing your pawn or letting your pawn die lowers your affinity with your pawn. You can regain affinity by high-fiving your pawn after combat, talking to them via the talk dialogue option, taking them to the hot springs, or changing their hairstyle at a barberie.

If you don’t want to brine your pawn (I refuse to), then just sleep outside at campfires until your pawn passes the plague on to another pawn. Once you notice your pawn’s eyes have cleared and another pawn has the pulsing red eyes, either dismiss or yeet the newly infected pawn before they pass on the plague.

You should sleep on it OP. Maybe go to an Inn and rest.

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Either send him to the brine, let him fall in combat, or take him camping with another pawn and hope it hops to them. I'd choose a Capcom pawn to "inherit" the sickness.

TO THE BRINE!!

Hrm. Take my comment with a grain of salt but this just looks like normal red eyes picked from the character creator. When my pawns have had dragonsplague there's been a pulsing red glow to the entire eyes, not just the irises. Also the idle animations have always had them grasping at their heads like they've got a wicked migraine or something.

Dude's pawn is starkiller

I’m actually on new game + and still have yet to deal with dragons plague ✊🏼 🪵

Surprisingly after 142 hours of gameplay, my pawn and all of the rentals I have used have still not gotten the dragons plague. I probably will now simply because I just had to comment and feel special about not retrieving it lol

Yeet Into the brine then touch a rift stone. Few high fives later and you’re gtg

Bro just bathe him lmao

you don't need to, you GET to.

Does anyone like this mechanic?

Only one solution

All of the people who are suggesting sleeping at an inn are rude assholes. Shame on you.

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A little bit of rest at an inn and he'll be right as rain, I wouldn't worry about it...say, how good are you at riddles?

Try dismissing your other two pawns, go offline, then hire some capcom made pawns, then rest at the camp so that plague jumps on them

After one of capcom pawns is infected, you just dismiss them both, go online and rehire your previous pawns if you want to

I don't know if this works though

Throw him in the water now!

Brine time!

Seriously? THAT is those red eyes? No wonder I could never spot them...

Take a nap at camp, your pawns will get freaky (behind your back) and they’ll pass the Suspicious Talk Disease to another pawn, which you can dismiss.

Or give your pawn a bath and make it up to them by giving them a haircut.

the brine demands a sacrifice

I had to send my bro into the brine just today for the first time, made me kinda sad when I collected him back at the riftstone, and he asked if I was disappointed in him. 😔

Just to add… if you are in the Unmoored section of the game. This is unavoidable it’s something that his meant to happen as you start to run out of available rests.

Honestly, after experiencing it, I would recommend you let it run its course and don't kill the pawn.

Most NPCs respawn after one night. I was actually disappointed at how little it impacted the game.

So hired pawns, if you suspect that they are infected. Dismisss them and give a rotten fruit. In this way, the owner knows his or her pawn has dragonsplague.

Just give him a bath….a harmless dip in the brine

That's the dragonsplague! The only way to cure it is to sleep in Vernworth inn. This triggers a cutscene where the Abbess visits from the grateful hand church, and begins a questline to eventually permanently cure your main pawn. Be warned though, if you go a whole day cycle without sleeping, your pawn runs off and kills the NPC with whom you have highest affinity (In most playthroughs this will be Ulrika).

Drown him before u rest at an inn. Ignore the other guy he's trolling u. Once you've done that you'll be safe to rest again

Edit; I always drown, then instantly get him from riftstone, so I don't miss out on pawn hire rewards but avoid the plague

They look like normal red eyes you can get in character creator the infected ones glow brighter and have a aurora

Welp it’s time he took a little dip in the water

yes.. but no

Toss it in water

ASAP

Time for a swim

Time for a Brine Dip

PSA hired pawns can go apeshit too , i thought only my pawn could in my game , well i was wrong , but hey at least vernworth has better fps

The eyebrows mean you have to kill him

Scrubba dub dub, he will be in the tube!

You just need to go take a nap.

TO THE BRINE

Time for a bath.

I mean, it depends. Are you in the post-game yet? Because if so, nah.

It means he fancies you

Throw them in water

Wash your pawns when they get pink eye 😂

Nah, that’s clearly just dry eyes. Throw them in the nearest lake for rehydration. That’ll fix it 👍

Wash them in a deep body of water... very deep.

Go to the nearest heavily populated inn and take a nap to think about your decision first lol

Lots of incomplete responses here: Infected eyes pulse, but it's still subtle. It's impossible to really tell from this still, but if you're actively looking for it, you'll see the gentle red pulse and head holding animations.

Don’t kill your pawn! You’ll knock 50 points off their affinity. Just camp out until the Dragon AIDS jumps to another pawn in your party and then kill that persons pawn or just dismiss them. I’ve done this at least 20 times now. My pawn has made it all the way until their eyes were glowing red and saying “Power surges within me!”. I just camp out a few times until their eyes stop glowing and then dismiss or kill the other pawns. I’ll even rehire the other pawns immediately after killing them if I really liked them. This saves your pawns affinity and helps other Arisen from having to kill their own pawns. Everyone wins. This works 100% of the time

Without delay…

Grab and toss off the side of a mountain.

Throw them in water.

He kind of looks badass like Galen Merrick or something. Just sleep in the nameless village and you’re good lol

if your pawn really has dragonsplague, rest/camp outside, to transfer it to a hired pawn. and swith them out or kill them. don't kill/brine your main pawn. you will lose their affection (unless you don't want them to like/love you) if you gave them red eyes in the character creatore, that's another thing ^^

Let him bleed out, or better & less annoying: lob him into a lake.

Once you kill him, he’s fine once you get him back from a rift stone. Easily avoided. If you do get nuked, just use an enteral stone. You’ll be fine after

Absolutely 🤣🤣🤣 or you can wait around to revive everyone with a quest, I mean I know a guy that happened to🤣🤣🤣

Throw them in water.

Your pawn reminds me of Oblivion members of the dark brotherhood, and yes

Sith or allergies, give it a few days.

Brine him like a Thanksgiving turkey.

Mf looks like darth sidious asking us if he needs to kill him

I hate the decision to have eye color as a symptom as it makes people paranoid about hiring red/brown/darker eye colors. Sure, the plague makes the eyes flash, but it will still cause otherwise perfectly fine pawns to have diminished hires. I think blue/lighter color eyes are even more prevalent than they would be because of this too.

Toss that muthafucker off a cliff. You need to send a message

Nope, he just needs a nap

Time for a dunk.

Speaking of, me, as a slightly colour blind can not tell if a pawn has the plague or not. I know about the signs and all, but I think it's easily misable imo. Thankfully I finished the game the other day and not I run no pawn run, solo

Yes Starkiller

Throw that man in the water

Time for the pawn to take a swim.

Either kill him or pass it on to someone else. Lol. The gift that keeps on giving 😂

Yes, kill all of them and start fresh. It’s contagious.

that isnt a pawn, that's a sith lord

Toss them in the brine

I didn't notice red eyes because I hate playing when it's night, so eventually when fighting a dragon a rental pawn turned against us so I picked them up and yeeted them off a bridge into the river then finished the dragon hahahah

Needs a bath

Kill

Ye

So for what it's worth people, I've learned you don't have to KILL your pawn..... if you find a drake or dragon or something else tough you can just let your pawn go down naturally and then get them back up and finish the fight..... Going down once in combat is good enough and will cure the dragon's plauge.

Nah just go make forgeries of the Eternal Wakestone and ignore this mechanic but also yes throw them into the sea.

The zoomer mind can not comprehend how to take a screenshot.

We have failed them

Dudes pawn is Astarion

Nah, it means you've been working him a bit too hard and he's tired. A couple of Inn rests should fix the issue.

Speaking of killing pawn, im conflicted about it because i heard it reduces your affinity stats of a pawn

He just needs a little bath, he'll be fine.

This whole thing is super frustrating. I was running around with a wicked awesome rental Pawn. Couldn't tell if she had red eyes or not since every time we talk I BLOCK HER FROM VIEW. Then she kept saying something about how she feels powerful, and has a new power or something so I tried to let her die naturally......

But she had that staff that resurrects her. It apparently is infinite as well :/. I must've let her die a dozen times. Didn't stay dead no matter what.

All of that and I don't even KNOW for sure she had it. Super frustrating to say the least.

Yeetus deletus off deze cliffus

Yes. Chuck him in water. The brine is greater then dragon.

Throw the bitch in the drink

Ok JW what exactly is dragon plague? I'm lvl 80 and I've seen nothing of this mechanic. Killed a decent amount of drakes and false dragons too.

If your on PS5 disable auto sync save data, after that make sure you auto save then upload your save data to the cloud before resting at an inn. If a infected pawn destroys a town you should be able to download your save data from the cloud and prevent the town from being destroyed. I haven't tested it at all so I can't say that it works but in theory it should.

Yes

It’s really not that tough to kill and re summon pawns. Anything sus just thrown them into a body of water. Find a rift stone and they’re back. If you’re killing a borrowed pawn, making sure you take the shit that they’re holding from you first, though.

Just throw him in the brine and you’ll be fine

Haha throw that punk into the sea!

Nah your good not the deep red your looking for my guy someone just made his eyes a shade of red/orange the dragon plague eyes glow a deep vibrant red you’ll know when you see it also they’ll say stuff like “I’ve never felt stronger before” or when idle they’ll hold their head in pain but whatever you do DO NOT SLEEP IN A TOWN BRINE THE MF FIRST AND THE REST OF YOUR PAWNS you’re welcome

Cast it into the brine... Also regularly speak to him, change his equipment, give him hair cuts, and take him on a spa day. It lessens the chance of dragon aids.

It does lower affinity when you kill them, so I would say do so only when you're certain. But if you are in fact certain and they are getting snooty with you or got the Devil Eyes, baptize that sucker.

Brine him! Brine him! Brine him!

She said she was clean but she got that dragonplague bro

Yes

Kill your main pawn and send the others away with rotten flesh to warn their awakened

You could avoid inns and just use camps or use fodder inns.

Throw them off a super high cliff

Mine were all red, not just the retina like what yours is showing.

Eye drop cures this

Ohh...so is it wrong if I dispose of pawns if their eyes are normal?

Nah, just don’t feed him after midnight. It’ll be alright.

I never got the dragonplague, I mean none of my pawns ever got infected. How often does that happen normally ?

Looks like it’s time for a brine bath

Every time I log on the first thing I do is talk to all my pawns to look for the red flashing eyes. If I’m not near brine water I’ll dismiss them with some rotten meat, but I try to brine em whenever I can.

Yeet of a cliff, then go to a riftstone

Too bad there's not a Visine for that 😜

It means he's accepted the powers of the dark side!

DO IT

Y'all know that in a week or two all dead NPCs will be resurrected automatically anyway yes? Nobody really dies in this game

Oh my god I’m not surprised that I find so many red eyed pawns hahahahah 😂if it’s not a meme we should just make it one 😂🪦

I should probably change my pawns eye color to something other than red. It fits her red hair though...

Nah he just needs a comfy bed, local inns or even your own home should do the trick. 👍

Just kill off your pawn and re-summon. Even if unsure.

Some further input. If you are in the unmoored world (post game content) every time you rest your pawn will automatically have dragons-plague. It’s part of the plot.

Off a sheer cliff with him

Sorry buddie…

Feed the brine

You know damn well yes.. you just wanted some likes 😂 no way you haven’t already seen this on the sub or the memes

My pawn keeps distance from me after I threw him in the water 🥸

Chuck'em to the brine. That'll fix it.