Far Cry 4: What Happened To Kyrat After The Game’s End?

With Pagan Min coming to Far Cry 6 in the Control DLC, the mysteries of what happened to the Far Cry 4 villain’s home country Kyrat have begun to stir once again. The end of Far Cry 4 sees Pagan Min’s autocracy overthrown by Ajay Ghale, the protagonist of the game, and the rebel group the Golden Path. However, while the Golden Path’s leaders are effective in times of war, they may not be the best decision-makers in times of peace.

Sabal and Amita are the two, young figureheads of the Golden Path. While both share a common interest in freeing Kyrat from Pagan Min’s grasp, the two have wildly different worldviews. Sabal is a staunch, religious conservative not completely unlike Far Cry 5‘s Eden’s Gate cult leader who wants to found a religious government based on the traditions of Kyrat; Amita is a radical progressive who wants to see a completely new future of her country unbounded by its history and culture.

Ajay ultimately decides whose vision for Kyrat wins out in Far Cry 4 by choosing between Sabal’s and Amita’s factions. Still, Kyrat does not have a promising future regardless of the ending Ajay chooses for the game. Sabal and Amita become extreme leaders without the other challenging their beliefs. Thus, when Ajay picks a faction of the Golden Path and kills the leader of the other, Kyrat’s trajectory is predetermined to be downhill.

Kyrat Is Either A Theocracy Or A Drug State After Far Cry 4’s Ending

Ajay may be one of the characters brought back in Far Cry 6, but until then, his canonical decisions regarding the leadership of the Golden Path are still unknown. If Ajay chooses to let Sabal lead Kyrat after overthrowing Pagan Min, the young leader creates a regressive, religious government centered around a spiritual figure. Following Pagan Min’s downfall, Ajay finds Sabal slaughtering Golden Path members who followed Amita in Jalendu Temple. After this, Sabal reveals he has placed a little girl named Bhadra in the role of Tarun Matara, which in Kyrati culture is the spiritual designation for the reincarnation of the god Kyra. Earlier in the game, Amita shares that the Tarun Matara has a history of being sexualized, a fact that becomes haunting considering the rumor that Sabal wants to marry Bhadra. While in Far Cry‘s secret-ending style Ajay has the option of killing Sabal to prevent this marriage, this does not affect the happenings of Kyrat, meaning the country’s path forward is a regressive one controlled by a theocracy.

Unfortunately, siding with Amita over Sabal does not promise a better future for Kyrat. After overthrowing Pagan Min, a cutscene shows Amita in Tirtha as she sends Golden Path soldiers into civilian houses to abduct children. She explains to Ajay that the children will become recruits for the Golden Path, which will need more fighters to keep Kyrat’s poppy fields safe for its future as a drug state. Amita also implies that she has killed Bhadra, taking from Kyrat its hopeful, religious figure. While Amita and Sabal’s treacheries make Far Cry 4 one of the series’ best games, they also make it hard to make the game’s major decisions. Even if Ajay chooses to let Amita run the Golden Path, Kyrat’s future is still one plunged in darkness.

Ajay may have been able to put a stop to the Golden Path’s wicked ways after the events of the game, though. In what appears to be the canon ending to Far Cry 4 because of Far Cry 6‘s Control DLC, Pagan Min tells Ajay that he is the King of Kyrat after letting him escape the country during the Golden Path uprising, meaning Ajay has the authority to run the country against the rebel group’s wishes. Far Cry 6 may thus show a promising future for Kyrat in its upcoming DLC, set to release in January 2022.