He traveled only to spread his Grandmother’s ashes, but what he involved himself with was much bigger than he had imagined.  He found himself in the middle of a civil war that would shed so much blood that the rivers would flow with it.  He knew he had to help the people of this civilization, but he was there for one purpose and one purpose only.  Turns out he went there to fulfill an unknown purpose.

His name is Ajay Ghale.  He resided in the United States but was born in a place in Asia that was surrounded by the Himalayan Mountains.  They called this place Kyrat.  Kyrat, a place filled with Chinese culture, where most of the inhabitants lived in poverty. The people of Kyrat would grow crops only for their families and occasionally to sell.  As Ajay later came to find out, the only reason why the people were like this was because of a military dictator named Rahim.

Rahim, the dictator, commanded an army to rule over all of the people in Kyrat.  The Royal Army is what he called his military and his high ranking officers would do anything to induce fear into the lives of his people.  

Ajay first arrived on a bus in this remote land where he was cut off from the United States completely.  Ajay saw the guards wearing red, heavy armor at the bus gate.  They were equipped with AK-47’s and seemed to be agitated with the bus driver.  More men in red show up and start to search the bus, but as soon as they start, a man on the bus swings a punch at the Royal Army guard so the guard shoots. When one shoots, they all shoot.  The bus is getting bombarded with bullets and Ajay decides to open the back hatch and make a break for it.  When he gets out, a man with a bright pink suit on walks up to the guard, it’s Rahim.  Ajay, still in a limbo state from all the shooting, can barely hear what they are saying.  “ I told you to stop the bus not shoot the bus.  Does the word stop sound like shoot?”  Rahim said to the guard.  Just as the guard is about to say something back, Rahim repeatedly stabs the guard with his pen.  Rahim starts to scream, “ Now there is blood all over my new shoes!”  Ajay just looks dumbfounded as he just slayed a man with a pen and is worried about his new shoes.  Ajay gets the real feel about Rahim and this is the first time that they have met.  “Sorry this isn’t much of a first impression, but some people just don’t listen.  It is an honor to meet you, grandson of Mohan Ghale.  I have much to discuss with you.”  He then kicks Ajay straight in the head to knock him out and puts a burlap sack over his head to hide the fact that they are kidnapping him.  

Ajay finally wakes up and he is sitting in a chair at an amazingly elegant dinner table outlooking the Himalayan Mountains.  Here Ajay sits directly in front of Rahim and his accomplice Chris.  To his right sits a man that was on the transport bus with Ajay.  Rahim starts to tell Ajay about how he has been longing to meet with him and discuss how they could keep his father’s legacy going by ruling the land with an iron fist, but then Rahim walks over to the stranger and sees that he is trying to text his family for help.  Rahim starts to subtly put his hands on the man’s shoulders as to make him feel welcomed, but he soon stabs the man’s leg with a fork and slams his head down on the table.  “You are too far away to get help.”  he whispers in his ear.  Rahim makes him stand up and yell at the top of his lungs for help.  “HELP!  HELP!”  the stranger screams.  “No one can hear you” Rahim whispers in his ear again.  Chris and Rahim take the stranger downstairs and tell Ajay to wait.  Ajay stands up and makes his way down to the basement where he sees the stranger being shocked and asked questions about a rebel group.  Ajay reaches the back door of Rahim’s mansion and then another man appears with a whole group of armed men.  “You need to follow me Ajay if you want to live,”  says the man.  He gives Ajay a gun and tells him to keep running and to  stop only when he reaches the man in the jeep.  The air is filled with smoke and the stream of gunfire is whizzing past his face in attempt to connect.  Ajay finally gets to the man in the jeep after what felt like an eternity running through the tornado of bullets, which really was about twenty feet.  They drive off shooting as many Royal Army men as they can and then make their way to the Ghale homestead where Ajay needs to spread his Grandmother’s ashes.  

These men and women in blue shirts meet up at the homestead and explain to Ajay that they need his help.  They tell him that the civil war has been going on for decades now and they need someone to lead the Golden Path.  He finds out that the golden khukris are their symbol for freedom against Rahim.  As he is spreading his grandmother’s ashes around the home, he tells Bushar, one of the Golden Path leaders, that he can’t get involved.  He tells them that he came here for one purpose which was to spread the ashes and leave.  They beg him to stay and fight.  “It is our only chance to bring peace back into Kyrat.”  Ajay looks around at everyone of these rebel fighters.  The scars they carry with them, the dead families that Rahim had executed, and the morale that kept them going and surviving.  He felt connected to them and saw himself as the leader of the Golden Path since his grandfather had died leading the rebels.  

Ashmir the lady leader of the golden path saw Ajay and immediately spit on his shoes.  She saw him as a threat of all the progress they had made towards taking down Rahim. Bushar and Ashmir were siblings but they didn’t act like it.  They hated one another’s ideas and had opposite views on the way they should operate.  Bushar wanted more traditional views and Ashmir wanted more recent views.  They both fought and made Ajay pick sides in all of the commotion.  

Ajay started picking sides with Ashmir since she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.  Her black glistening hair and her smooth tan skin that made her glow in the sunset.  He started to plant opium fields, which is a hallucinogen, and started burning Rahims opium fields.  The opium would draw in a lot of income to buy weapons and other goods for the Golden Path.  Ajay wanted to impress Ashmir and he did anything that she asked him to do.  He didn’t think she was changing him but she was.  She tried to manipulate him into even recruiting young children by ripping them away from their families and threatening them to join the Golden Path.  He kept on doing what he thought was right in order to take out Rahim.  He stayed strong and looked at the bigger picture.

Ajay finally gave in and stayed there living for the rest of his life in his grandfather’s homestead.  He is fighting to take Rahim out for the brutal tactics and the awful ways of treating his people.  Maybe one day he will be slain but only by Ajay Ghale.