WMG / Far Cry 6

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Pre-Release WMG

This is in an Alternate Continuity from Far Cry 5

Considering that game and its sequel involve a nuclear apocalypse, it's likely they'll write it where the events of 5 never happened.

• Alternatively, the events of 5 did happen, but the "Resist" ending is confirmed to be a huge Bliss hallucination experienced by the Junior Deputy.
• That or Yara survived the worst of the apocalypse and remains relatively untouched.
  • Perhaps the effects of the US and other parts of the world being destroyed in a nuclear war will be explained as having contributed to the current state of Yara.
• Or it's set before whenever 5 happened.
• Castillo speaks of Seed's story in Far Cry: Rite of Passage series.

Returning characters

• Willis and Hurk will appear. Again.
  • Because why not?
  • Semi-confirmed; the developers have confirmed Hurk will not appear due to negative reception to his characterization in 5 and its Lost on Mars DLC, but he does make a cameo; he was the one who shipped Boomer to Yara for his safety. Willis similarly appears as a cameo, in a note he leaves Juan for screwing him over during his venture in Yara as well as his dog tags that can be used as a charm.

Longinus will appear.He has stated that after his venture in Kyrat is over, he might head to South America or elsewhere. Considering the setting of this game, and its conflict once again being about rebels against a dictatorship, we might see our favorite crazed African arms trader again. We might even also see confirmation of the popular fan theory that sprung up from 4 that he is a much older Prosper Kouassi.

• Jossed, not in the base game at least.
  • Or, to be more specific, not in the flesh. If Dani spares him, Sean McKay will call Longinus to discuss business, while also mentioning that Yara was the arms dealer's "old stomping grounds".

Diego

• A lot of people have immediately jumped on the idea that Diego, who is the dictator's young son, is actually the young Vaas from Far Cry 3.
  • This is very unlikely, and sadly jossed by the World Premiere trailer. There's a smartphone on the table and Diego is wearing clothes that wouldn't be out of place in modern times (distressed skinny jeans, anyone?). Since 3 was set in 2012, Vaas (who was aged 27) would be a child in the late '80s-early '90s, where the former especially wouldn't exist. Also, Vaas may have survived. Diego definitely didn't.
• It's also likely that Diego may be a minor antagonist where due to his fear of his father, he becomes unstaunchly loyal to him to the point he will become just as ruthless (if not more) than his father. There will also be a Player Punch where the player will be forced to kill him as means of overthrowing the dictatorship.

Dani Rojas will end up being a Supporting Protagonist in the overarching story

• The story will ultimately be about Diego and how the events of the game (as well as his father's grooming) changes him as a person.
  • Let's be honest, practically every voiced protagonist in previous Far Cry games has ended up being seen as a Vanilla Protagonist by the majority of the fandom. What seems to attract the fanbase is the franchise's memorable villains (and sometimes its supporting characters). Therefore it's possible that the developers may choose to tell the core story of this game in a much more different fashion than they have before.
• Jossed.

Multiple endings for how the game plays out

• One faction would end up basically causing a Full-Circle Revolution, meaning within 5-10 years from the end of the game, someone else will come along and start the whole process over again.
• Diego will be converted to the La Résistance's cause, and overthrow or even kill his father.
• Surprise ending that occurs 10 - 20 minutes into the game like with the previous two games, when something happens that allows either the player character or a Black Ops soldier from a Western Country (US, Canada, UK, France, etc., take your pick) to kill Anton straight away. If the latter option, the soldier will then taser Diego and bring him to him out of there for the purpose of grooming him to take over Yara not only as a better ruler but supporting the interests of whatever country grabbed him.
• Dani will have the option of either killing or sparing Castillo, similar to Pagan Min. Killing Castillo, much like how his own father was murdered by La Résistance, will encourage Diego to repeat the cycle.
  • Jossed, there's only one ending.

You play as the Villain Protagonist

• Unlike the past Far Cry games where you play a hero fighting against the Big Bad or the oppressive army, in this game, you play the villain trying to keep the rebels from overthrowing the Empire. The trailer where the father gives his lesson to his son using a grenade about controlling the population that hates them, could very well be the plot point of the game. This will make Dani Rojas the Hero Antagonist by the end of the story.
  • Alternatively, you're playing the Full-Circle Revolution kind of rebel.
    • Semi-confirmed; you have the option to sell out and allow a Corrupt Corporate Executive to walk away with Yara's newly developed chemical weapons for a mountain of cash. If you do, it's implied that you become a ruthless mercenary-for-hire like Juan.

This takes place after the Nuke Ending of Far Cry 5

• The plot of the game will be the player to liberate the nation and once again have contact with the outside world. Rather than Cuba, Yara is closer to North Korea, with internet and broadcasting strictly monitored. The final twist will be that the entire world has collapsed, and Yara, due to its isolation, had managed to endure relatively unscathed, enough the population doesn't even know about the nuclear war. Anton Castillo rules so strictly because he alone is aware of the war, and worried his people will fall into despair.
  • Unlikely. Castillo gives an interview to a western news team and the gameplay overview states he plans to use Vivero as a bargaining chip with the UN, implying the world is not nuked.
  • Jossed.

Anton Castillo will be an Expy of both Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro.

• Batista for...generally everything, Fidel for being a potential Windbag Politician and Large Ham, as well as the dynastic politics.
  • As far as the trailers go, Castillo is being portrayed as a Well-Intentioned Extremist, focused on ending the civil unrest that could have been possibly tearing Yara for years, even if it means cruel dictatorship. This would be a far cry from obvious kleptocracy of Batista. Anton Castillo gives vibes suggesting similarity to people like Fidel Castro, Francisco Franco or even Iosif Stalin.

Dani & Diego are adults during the game storyline.

• Anton and young Diego will be shown only in flashbacks & the introduction of the game. The actual game story-line where Dani is fighting the civil war, takes place in a time period where Dani & Diego are both adults. A central element of that story conflict is Dani's father attempted to overthrow Anton, perhaps even killed him, but Diego maintained control over the country and in return killed Dani's parents, leading Dani to plot against Diego and for Diego to have his own motive for revenge against Dani.
  • Jossed, the gameplay overview shows Castillo bringing a young Diego to Dani's prison cell.

Castillo isn't actually Latino.

His actor apparently isn't Latino, so if Castillo's Latino, then this would be a case of Fake Nationality. However, maybe Castillo was placed as president by a foreign power regardless of his ethnic background?

• Judging from a family photo in the montage leading up to the gameplay premier, his father was Latino while his mother was black. Adding onto this, as we see in the trailer, there is a sizable black population in Yara, which is Truth in Television to its real-life counterpart, Cuba.
• And, of course, there is no reason why a dictator of a Banana Republic or their parents should be indigenous. This is 21st century, people travel and marry people of a very different origins. Alberto Fujimori, infamous former president of Peru, is Japanese. His successor, Pedro Kuczynski Godard, is of Polish-German-French ancestry. So, Castillo might not be Latino, but this does not mean he is not a native Yaran.

Yara has Nukes

Yara is inspired by Cuba so what if the alternate universe version of the Cuban Missile Crisis left a few nuclear ICBMs on the island? With rising nuclear tensions that leads to Far Cry 5, the missiles would draw the attention of foreign powers to the revolution (including a certain CIA agent) who want get control over the weapons by ousting the current government. And then there is spectre of el presidente's finger on the button and what he might do if the revolution starts coming for his head.

• Zig-Zagged: No nukes are ever confirmed in Yara, but Viviro is secretly a superweapon; since it doubles as an effective cancer suppressant and a chemical WMD, it can effectively loophole its way across all kinds of ICBM treaties, giving it a warhead niche in a bureaucratically-bogged world. This is why the Mckay mega-corporation sponsors Yara.

Dani is the son/daughter of Castillo

Noticed this moment in the character trailer introducing Dani. Dani, Castillo, and Diego are framed by the words "For Family".

• Diego and Default!Dani also have the same scar above their right eye. Coincidence, or key familial resemblance?
• Earlier in the trailer, it's mentioned that Dani is Conveniently an Orphan, but maybe he/she never knew their birth father. Would be ironic that the child of the revolution is really a child of the dictator they are bringing down, though it might be too big a cliche for even Ubisoft.
• Adding to my theory after the Ubisoft showcase at E3; in the villain trailer for Anton Castillo, Ubisoft showed the cutscene of Dani trying to escape Yara on a boat. Diego on that same boat, also trying to escape Yara. He interacts with Dani and gives her a baseball card, setting up a relationship between the two and hinting that Diego is key to Dani's arc. Possible sibling parallels?
• Dani also the mentions the orphanage she grew up in and is also escaping with a fellow orphan. Diego and the orphanage being mentioned in the same cutscene seems to be a deliberate hint that Dani's childhood is an important plot point.
• If this theory is confirmed, it seems Dani will have to choose between family or the cause (the revolution).
• Jossed.

Dani is a former soldier of Castillo's army, and Juan was the one who recruited them. A portion of Libertad distrusts them at first for this very reason.

• In one shot of the gameplay trailer, we see Dani in a military uniform angrily telling Juan that "[she] is nothing like [him/them]". In a later shot, we see her pointing her rifle at Clara, who seems to be pretty peeved with her. The revolution probably sees them as some sort of spy or just refuse to accept them purely because they used to serve under Castillo. On the official website, Dani is stated to have been forced into Castillo's army and Clara is an ex-KGB spymaster, so Clara might think she knows a spy when she sees one.
• Confirmed, Dani is stated to be a former Yaran soldier in his/her backstory.

Dani and Diego are Castillo's pawns and are not related to him

Building on the themes from Far Cry 5, Dani and Diego might be orphans that are used by Castillo for some complex purpose. He might have adopted Diego and groom him as his heir, while making sure that Dani gets into the ranks of rebels, possibly trying to reconcile or annihilate two sides of a conflict for the perceived greater good of Yara.

• Jossed; Castillo bred Diego just to have an heir, then holds Clara at gunpoint to threaten Dani into joining him.

The game will be devoid of any fantastic elements

Taking an approach similar to Far Cry 2, the game will not include any fantastic elements, whether obviously supernatural, Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane or explained by Hand Wave or Applied Phlebotinum.

Juan Cortez is a CIA/corporate agent

Juan has only been successful at repeatedly inciting uprisings among Banana Republics because he's endorsed by a superpower to weaken dictatorships so they can be bought out by empires. Otherwise, they would have assassinated a known Terrorist Without A Cause who stabbed at their profit margins a long time ago.

• Juan is stated to be an ex-spymaster who defected to the CIA, so that's partially true.
• Juan cuts a deal with Mckay to trade

The cancer research is a lie

In-game, Castillo claims that he discovered an effective treatment for cancer in his nationalized tobacco industry, and uses this to advocate his dictatorship on the world stage. Except yeah, the toxic chemical dressing that gets sprayed over the tobacco plants is shown to guarantee cancer. Castillo is either (A) outright lying to keep himself in power, or (B) downplaying the horrific side-effects of the official treatment - why cure cancer when you can trick patients into making their cancer worse and force them to take your drugs to survive?

• Zig-zagged. While Viviro seems to have fairly horrific side-effects in some circumstances, it works effectively enough to keep Castillo's aggressive Leukemia at bay for several years. However, it eventually loses effectiveness.

Castillo was brought into power with help of the CIA

Given the post Cold War setting, Castillo may have been brought to power with CIA backing during the 60s to the 80s to prevent the spread of communism. Unknown if the Americans would still be involved today.

• If they are still supporting Castillo, the reasons are that the cancer research is genuine and the American government had secretly made attempts (and failed) to cover up the humanitarian crisis happening on Yara, and that the various opposition groups in the country are too far left leaning for the US’s liking.
• If neutral, then domestic and international protesting and pressure for supporting a fascist dictatorship force the US government to cease trade and impose sanctions, thus the current situation in Yara.
• If on the rebels’ side, Castillo may have done something to upset the US as well as the US under a new presidency taking a more active approach in supporting democracy deciding they would secretly provide infantry arms and “advisors” from military special forces and CIA agents to support them in atonement. Although given the past relationship with Castillo the rebels will accept this begrudgingly.
  • Also you maybe given missions from the Americans to determine whether the cancer research is genuine or not. If it is, then you would get the opportunity to steal the research and give the contents to the US.

Post-Release WMG

The grenade in the trailer is a dud

Become the Villain WMG

Pagan really is dead, and Control is his purgatory.

It's described in Rite of Passage that Pagan was killed by Ajay in a cruel twist of irony. Pagan is trapped in purgatory and can't escape because he refuses to admit to his flaws.

Alternatively, Ajay helped Pagan fake his death, but his demons are haunting him deeply.

Ajay just convinced the Golden Path and society outside of Kyrat that he killed Pagan, and he is now laying low (as much as he can since he loves having the spotlight on him). This encourages his subconscious guilt, as he has no way to reunite with Ishwari and Lakshmana through death, and he can't be with Ajay since he's "dead".

Amita launched nukes at Montana, and only Montana.

Considering Amita's approach to a new Kyrat, she seems more inclined to get into a conflict with a foreign country than Sabal who seemed perfectly inclined to focus on the country itself. Amita probably discovered the interference of the CIA in Kyrat's affairs and wanted to make sure it wouldn't happen again. Upon stripping down Pagan's former kingdom, she discovered the nukes, which would be perfect for making the United States back off. When they tried to get involved again, power-tripping and finally having an excuse to defend herself, Amita bombed Montana to make a statement, coinciding with Joseph's visions of "The Collapse".

Alternatively, Ajay launched the nukes as a Godzilla Threshold.

Ajay discovered Pagan's tapes and found the nukes, but had no reason to use them. Upon hearing of the worsening state of Hope County and the Project at Eden's Gate, Ajay flew back to Kyrat and decided the best way to deal with the the cult at this point was to go scorched earth and just wipe as many of them off the map as possible. Oh yeah, and Willis was there at the time. Remember the time you shoved me out of that plane, fucker?

Far Cry 5, New Dawn, and Collapse are all visions Joseph is receiving.