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Édgar Reyes is the antagonist of Far Cry 6.
Biography[]
Doctor Édgar Reyes was a scientist who studied what made the tobacco of Yara so delicious. He started first trial in 2008, but the experiment didn’t get enough resources under Santos Espinosa’s regime. In 2014, Dr. Reyes discovered that Yaran tobacco contained a chemical compound known as Yarantine that provided a sweet flavor that also stopped cancer cell growth. He would work with future Yaran President Antón Castillo to develop this miraculous new cure, known as Viviro. Antón would use this promise of developing Viviro to appeal to the people that would elect him as the new Presidente. Dr. Reyes also had been Antón's personal doctor charged with treating his acute leukemia for a long time, so he was promoted to be the Minister of Health.
Reyes was head of the scientific company known as Biovida and would develop the special, but carcinogenic, fertilizer PG-240. Reyes was secretly a sadistic psychopath who would stop at nothing in the name of scientific progress, even at the risk of his own safety. He took pleasure in experimenting on the enemies of the Castillo regime known as Fake Yarans, or Outcasts, who he considered to be equal to livestock.
Dani Rojas would meet El Doctor when he was being interviewed by the Minister of Culture, María Marquessa. He declares his innocence as just being a scientist and is allowed to leave before the Minister is momentarily killed. Dani would cross paths with El Doctor in an effort to rescue Paolo de la Vega. Reyes renders them unconscious and implants a PG-240 implant in their body. Máximas Matanzas and Dani swear vengeance upon El Doctor.
Reyes's right-hand man, Sergio Estévez, is forced to reveal the location of his superior before being killed by Paolo. Dani confronts Reyes at Biovida Building 13 and infects them with more of the poison. Dani fights back against the hallucinations and kills El Doctor, who laments over how he will never finish his research.
If Dani takes the boat to leave Yara and live in the US, it's unknown what would happen to Reyes. He most likely continues his sadistic experiments.
Personality[]
Édgar Reyes is a brilliant but sadistic scientist. He earned the nickname El Doctor for his sadistic experiments and earned the ire of his enemies. Reyes is so fixated on his quest for "progress" he was willing to put himself at risk of being killed, which would be his downfall. He was fanatically loyal to Antón, who considered him to be his friend, and was instrumental in his rise to the presidency. Antón also deeply trusted Reyes with his charge as his personal physician and was deeply upset to the point of losing his composure in front of his soldiers upon learning of El Doctor's demise. Reyes considered "Fake Yarans" to be equal to livestock and had no qualms performing the most horrific acts upon them. Despite his contempt for Outcasts, he admired them for their ability to endure his experiments.
Trivia[]
- Édgar Reyes is clearly inspired by the Nazi scientist, Josef Mengele and Japanese doctor Shirō Ishii, who were infamous for their sadistic experiments on prisoners in concentration camps during the Holocaust and Unit 731 respectively. Reyes's final mission appearance, Ángel de la Muerte, is also a reference to Mengele's moniker, the Angel of Death.
- His name was Edgar Ramirez at some point, Ubisoft Toronto changed it to avoid legal issue since this name belongs to an actor in Venezuela. But this name can still be found on IMDB and a Ubisoft news article in 2022.
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