John Seed

John Seed is one of the secondary antagonists in the 2018 video game Far Cry 5.

Role in the cult
John is the younger brother of Joseph and Jacob Seed and the older half-brother of Faith Seed. Like his siblings, John is one of the leaders of the Project at Eden's Gate. As the cult believes that the apocalypse is close, John has the role of forcing potential new members to repent their sins, which he does by carving the sins they are guilty of into their flesh. If they have atoned for their sins, John cuts the carved skin out of the person's body, which serves as a sign that they have successfully left their sins behind them.

When a group of US marshals arrive at Eden's Gate to arrest Joseph Seed - the cult's leader - they soon find themselves fighting the Seed family and the cult. After almost every member of the party has been captured by the cultists, one of the deputys is left in John's charge but the rookie - the protagonist - is determined to free them, which puts them in the path of the Seed family. The rookie successfully manages ambush Seed and force John into retreating, causing him to flee by plane, and then fights an aerial battle with Seed, causing him to crash in the mountains of Montana. The rookie then finishes Seed off on the ground, stealing his key to John's Doomsday bunker in the process. The resistance then uses the key to access Seeds bunker, free the prisoners and blow it up afterwards.

After John's death, Joseph monologues about how John was not perfect, at some times not even good, but that he was still his brother and that those who are responsible for his death will be punished.