Cris Formage

Background

Cris Formage is a media personality and the founder and leader of the Epsilon Program, a cult headquartered in the Cayman Islands with its Los Santos base at the Epsilon Building on Spanish Avenue, Rockford Hills. He is voiced by Fred Melamed and calls himself "The Divine Truth." His followers include Marnie Allen, Jimmy Boston and Baygor, and he flies a baby-blue Epsilon Maverick.

Events of Grand Theft Auto V

Radio news reports that a court has stripped Epsilon of its status as a religion and its tax exemption, leaving Formage in tears on the courthouse steps. He stays mostly behind the scenes during Michael De Santa's run through the Epsilon missions. He is heard in Seeking the Truth, and during Exercising the Truth he calls Michael to say he is closely following his progress. Once that task is finished, Cris summons Michael to the Epsilon Program center for the final step, Unknowing the Truth, where he acts as the mission's boss.

If Michael steals the cult's money at the end, Formage phones him in a rage, revokes his "enlightenment," brands him "Unsaveable" and threatens to ruin him, but is never seen again. A slideshow at the Epsilon Building later promotes his book, We All Came From The Same Tree.

Role in GTA Online

After the player's first death, Formage appears in a fourth-wall-breaking scene that introduces Passive Mode. In Import/Export he buys a car collection from the player, and in Money Fronts (2025) his cult is revealed as a client of Mr. Faber's counterfeit money network.

Trivia

• Michael uses the alias "Cris With No H" in Epsilon dealings.
• He also appears as a hallucination in the Fooligan Job Liquid Assets.