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Mohan Ghale (Hindi: मोहन घले) is a character who appears in Far Cry 4, and the secondary antagonist of Pagan: Control. He is Ajay Ghale's father and the founder of the Golden Path. His journal is scattered across Kyrat for decades and eventually collected by Ajay in 21st century.
Biography[]
In 1981 Mohan was married to Ishwari, even though she was born in 1968, which means she was only 13 year old at her wedding. Worse, their marriage was arranged and approved by her parents, and the religious leaders of Jalendu Temple paid her dowry. The village elders only warned against this because they regarded marrying the Tarun Matara as bringing 'bad luck', not because of her age.
In the same year Mohan became a member of the Royal Guard and was personally shaken by the murder of the royal family in 1985 by the Nationalists during the First Kyrati Civil War, which he was unable to stop as he had been knocked down by a grenade blast thrown by Nationalists who stormed the Royal Palace. Shortly after their murders, Mohan rallied the Royalists to continue fighting against Nationalists, but the Nationalists proved too strong.
Shortly afterwards Pagan Min and Yuma Lau arrived in Kyrat with their vast triad gang, as well as a distant relative of the royal family. Pagan offered assistance and told the Royalists he was interested in helping reinstate the royal family. Mohan and Pagan had a brief partnership during which Mohan seemed to have a high opinion of him describing him as intelligent and well-spoken; This however did not last long before Pagan revealed his true colors. Once the Royalists had obtained power, Pagan betrayed the them and murdered the young boy who was to be heir to the throne, taking the throne for himself in 1987. Mohan was deeply affected by the betrayal and shortly after organized the remnants of Royalists into the Golden Path that fought in Second Kyrati Civil War seeking to overthrow Pagan Min. Mohan named the Golden Path after a dream Ishwari told him she had, in which she witnessed them both "walking down a golden path". When Mohan told Ishwari what he had named the organization, she smiled.
Mohan seems to have genuinely loved Ishwari, though was unable to ever fully pull himself away from Kyrati political machinations, and very early on his marriage to Ishwari became subject to those political machinations. As early as 1987, Mohan proposed that Ishwari, as Tarun Matara, serve as head of state in the absence of a royal heir and under the protection of a regent. In 1988, they gave birth to their son Ajay Ghale. Also within the same year, Mohan had begun accepting assistance from the US government in dismantling Pagan's regime. It is unknown why the US government wanted to see Pagan taken out of power (although it is implied Pagan's decision to turn Kyrat into a Narco-State served as justification for US intervention) but the CIA supplied Mohan and the Golden Path with weapons. Mohan was very wary of the Americans and refused their offers to provide military advisors on the grounds that "This is a war for Kyrat and it must be won by Kyratis, not Americans."
By 1988 his marriage with Ishwari became strained and they fought frequently, to the point where Mohan describes in his journals not wanting to come home at night. Ishwari claimed she felt ignored by Mohan and the movement and that she wanted to help them fight and be more than just a figurehead. As retaliation Mohan, sent her to Pagan's palace as a spy, hoping that being so close to the action would sufficiently horrify Ishwari enough to make her withdraw any further attempts to help with the rebellion. He was startled however to learn Ishwari was an excellent spy, so much so that Pagan began to deeply trust and respect her. Mohan encouraged Ishwari to use this to her advantage, to get closer to Pagan, and even to bring Ajay with her to the Palace in order to bolster her cover story, regardless of the danger posed to both her and their son.
The relationship between Pagan and Ishwari eventually blossomed to a full romantic affair. Mohan learned Ishwari had a second child with Pagan, a daughter named Lakshmana. Mohan was enraged and killed Lakshmana. Although the reason why he killed her is never clearly stated, his journals suggest it was out of a combination of anger over Ishwari's betrayal and a desire to prevent Pagan from having an heir. Mohan refers to his murder of Lakshmana as "fixing" Ishwari's "mistake". Ishwari shot him soon after and fled with Ajay to the United States. In his journals Mohan does not say why or how he killed Lakshmana but stresses that everything he did, he did for Ajay and Ajay's future. It is never explained what he meant by this.
A note from Ishwari shows she was already getting ready to flee the country before she had killed Mohan, citing him as one of the reasons she was leaving and saying he was "out of control" and that she was afraid of leaving Ajay alone with him. The note leaves why Ishwari killed Mohan in speculation. Willis suggests Mohan tried to murder her for leaving with Ajay, which if true means his murder may have been in self-defense.
Trivia[]
- It is unknown why Mohan killed Lakshmana. Although it is presumed to have been out of jealousy and Ishwari's affair, this is ultimately still speculative. Mohan states in his journal that what he had done, he did for Ajay, which suggests an ulterior motive that is ultimately unknown.
- Despite his eventual descent into madness, Mohan's journals reflect that he sincerely cared for Kyrat to some degree. He often daydreamed of possibilities for the country, including the abolishment of child labor and free education for all citizens.
- Pagan and Mohan had a rivalry that existed prior to Ishwari's affair and had a seemingly reciprocal dislike of each other even before the truth about Ishwari had been revealed to them both.
- Unlike Mohan who married a 13 year old Ishwari, both Pagan Min and Amita are disgusted by child marriage, and therefore both want to crush the backward traditions that allow child marriage to be arranged and even endorsed by Kyrat religious leaders. Both Pagan Min and Amita want to vandalize Jalendu Temple as a result.
- Sabal idolization of Mohan's cause and his lack of criticism toward Mohan's stance on child marriage further divided the Golden Path, as the 2 Golden Path leaders Amita and Ishwari were affected by this backward tradition.
- Sabal idolizes Mohan and tells Ajay he intends to continue what Mohan started, even though Sabal would have been a child when Mohan died, and it is unlikely that he actually knew Mohan very well. Amita comparatively does not have much to say about Mohan.
- Both Mohan and Paul Atreides in Dune came up with Golden Path but not able to complete it, being fulfilled by their sons instead.
- In the Far Cry 6 "Pagan Min: Control" DLC, Mohan appears as a hallucination in Pagan's mind. He asks Pagan if he still blames him for everything that went wrong in Pagan's life, or if he has realized yet that Pagan simply hates himself. The fact that this happens in Pagan's mind means this is probably more so Pagan's view of Mohan and thoughts on himself, and not a reliable representation of Mohan's actual thoughts and feelings.
- It is implied in the Control DLC that Yuma was the one who informed Mohan of Ishwari's affair.
- It's likely that the unique sawn off version of 1887 shotgun, the 87, belonged to Mohan and was found by Ajay in 21st century, as it's the only sawn off 1887 in the entire country and he wielded it according to the memories of Pagan Min in Pagan: Control.
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