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The VALORANT Protocol is an independent, covert operation from Alpha Earth founded and set up in response to First Light, consisting of Agents from all around the globe. Their mission is to keep the world safe from dangerous situations involving radianite.
History[]
Founding[]
In response to a mysterious event, known as First Light, that affected the entirety of a near future Earth, an unknown shadow organization founded the secretive VALORANT Protocol, which pulled together agents from all over the world. Brimstone and Viper were the Protocol's first two agents and earliest members, with Brimstone becoming its leader and Viper his second-in-command. Omen is also known to have played an important part in the VP's founding.[1][2][3]
VALORANT's task was to keep the world safe from dangerous situations involving radianite and ensure that no cataclysmic disasters would occur.[4]
Early operations[]
The VALORANT Protocol would go on to recruit more agents to their cause, with each agent being given a number in the order that they joined. These Agents consisted of radiants and other individuals equipped with technology, with all of them coming from a wide spectrum of backgrounds ranging from crime to the military. By around 10 AFL, the Protocol had recruited at least 10 agents during their existence (up to Jett). Some of these agents had quickly risen up the ranks, with Sage, VALORANT's 7th recruit, being identified by Protocol top brass as an individual with significant leadership qualities. During these early days of VALORANT, information was strictly kept on a need-to-know basis and even agents themselves were compartmentalized.[5][6]
At some point, the VALORANT leadership learned about the existence of the Omega Earth, but chose to withhold this information from newer recruits.
During an undisclosed period, the Protocol's eighth agent was reported to be absent indefinitely.[7] Despite this, VALORANT continued their operations as normal.
Initial defense against Omega Earth[]
Phoenix fails to prevent the detonation of a spike in Venice
In 10 AFL, VALORANT sent Phoenix to Venice in order to stop an unknown radiant from planting a device known as the spike, but he was unsuccessful in doing so. The resulting spike detonation caused multiple chunks of the city to become suspended in the air. A day afterwards, international news media began reporting of the disaster while at the same time, a similar attack occurred in Rabat, with the Protocol sending a strike team consisting of Killjoy, Viper, and Phoenix in order to handle the situation this time. While the team was successful in creating a defuser that prevented the spike from detonating, Phoenix had an encounter with his Omega counterpart, which prompted the VP to start sharing information after the incident. Agents within the Protocol started to meet each other in person for the first time and the senior leadership began to brief the younger agents about what they knew regarding Omega, a major change from how the organization used to operate. VALORANT continued to hire agents after these events.[8][9][10][5][11]
At some point following the Venice incident, VALORANT established a forward operating base on a floating island that was once part of the Italian city. This base would serve as the training grounds for the Protocol agents, with Brimstone and Cypher setting up their individual offices within the facility.
By the time that Yoru, the Protocol's 15th recruit, joined the organization, there was a known operation wherein they were successful in fending off a spike attack from Omega agents in Bennett Island. [12][13]
The Omega Project[]
The blueprint for the Alpha-Omega teleporter
At some point, the experiments being done by Kingdom Corporation and Kingdom Industries at the Everett-Linde Research Lab in Santa Fe County caused an event wherein the surrounding environment was split in two halves, affecting the area for miles beyond the facility, which drew the attention of a VALORANT Protocol agent. Around 10-11 AFL, the organization as a whole became interested in Everett-Linde, and one known operation sent Viper and Cypher to the now-destroyed lab in order to secure blueprints for a full Alpha-Omega teleporter that the facility had been using. Obtaining these blueprints would allow the Protocol to build their own cross-world teleporter and finally be able to travel to Omega Earth. After a full sweep of the facility however, retrieving information about the teleporter was unsuccessful, despite several data recovery attempts from Cypher.[14][15]
Killjoy began working on constructing a cross-world teleportal despite this, initially using existing Alpha teleportals and what they could gather from Everett-Linde to try reverse engineering, though the proper blueprints needed were eventually provided to her by recent recruit Chamber. The German engineer managed to validate their legitimacy but still found it difficult to find a viable power source needed for the initiative to come into fruition. This prompted Chamber to introduce K-SEC veteran Tala Nicole Dimaapi Valdez to Brimstone, explaining that her radiant bio-electric abilities could provide the necessary power. With Valdez promptly recruited into VALORANT, Killjoy began making stronger progress on working towards a stable connection between Alpha and Omega.[15] During this time, Astra took some time off between missions in order to attend to her astral guardian duties, so as to ensure that the construction and use of the Alpha-Omega teleporter will not bring any unintended consequences.[16]
Secrecy under threat[]
The mark of the blackmailer who threatened to expose the VALORANT Protocol
As plans were being made for the upcoming missions to Omega however, the Protocol began to face risks from its own home world. Breach reported that conspiracy sites were once again investigating the events that occurred at Venice in 10 AFL, with new surveillance shots of Phoenix and Omega Jett surfacing. Cypher worked to wipe out the footage, but with this latest development and families of the Everett-Linde team also asking Kingdom questions about their missing relatives, Breach expressed concerns about VALORANT's secrecy being under threat and advised that the organization needed to lay low.[17]
Such fears were further validated when Brimstone received an email from an anonymous blackmailer who threatened to expose the organization if she ever found out the Protocol was responsible for the disappearance of someone she knew. Sova and Cypher worked to track down the new threat but with little success. In response, the blackmailer then sent personal messages to some of the Protocol's agents to show off how much she knew about the agents before sending a warning to Brimstone and making further threats about handing such data over to the public. Once Cypher finally gained a lead on the blackmailer's whereabouts being somewhere in Türkiye, a strike team consisting of Sova, Cypher, Chamber, Breach, Neon, and KAY/O was swiftly formed in order to track her down. Narrowing down her location to Istanbul, the strike team eventually tracked the blackmailer to a warehouse where she appeared to fight back as the team was attacked by nightmarish entities. However, being a radiant, she was unable to do anything against one of KAY/O's suppressing pulses, and was apprehended quickly after. She was then taken back to base to be interrogated, where VALORANT were then able to tell her directly that they had nothing to do with her missing man's disappearance and knew nothing of any kidnapping.[17]
With the entire situation now being nothing more than a misunderstanding, the blackmailer was no longer a threat to the Protocol, which also presented an opportunity; their search for her had exposed just how reliant VP was on specific agents for information, and they were looking to recruit more as a result. With there being no more reason for the two to be enemies, VALORANT's senior agents decided to ask if she would join the organization and help them gather information as they made the journey to the Omega Earth. She accepted their offer and was recruited as the Protocol's twentieth agent, "Fade".[17]
The Blackmailer's agent dossiers[]
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NAME // Efia Danso
CLASSIFICATION // Radiant
What drew you to the lake, Efia Danso? What was it you found there, at that crater more than one million years old? Not a place for a city girl like you.
Perhaps it was the night sky. Looking up, what did you see? Stars, bright and beautiful and distant?
No. You saw the emptiness between. The impossible cold. There is so much more of it, isn’t there? So much more darkness than light.
NAME // Erik Torsten
CLASSIFICATION // Human
The Torsten family was pursued and punished, but not you, Erik. Not the congenital amputee. The judge couldn’t see past your disability. They insulted you with piteous lenience: unwanted, unneeded, undeserved.
So you struck back. The Stockholm Radianite Reserve. The Gothenburg job. Your trip to Salvador. Ignoring you became impossible. Notoriety so high you had to disappear. You showed them you’re as much a Torsten as the rest.
Was the lesson worth it? Knowing now you can never go home?
NAME // Liam Byrne
CLASSIFICATION // Human
Hello, Liam.
You keep your people close, don’t you? First the BFD, Engine 8. Then the Special Forces - you and your Ragged Ravens. You would have done anything for them.
And yet, despite all your best efforts, you watched Tariq Porter die. What did Sumaira say when you told her?
Now. After all this time, has anything changed? Or are you leading VALORANT to the slaughter? Do you really think you can save anyone?
NAME // Vincent Fabron
CLASSIFICATION // Human
When did your game start, Vincent? Saint-Étienne? Culverin? Kingdom Defense was only a stepping stone - by then you had your path.
And what a path. Your ends allude me, but this is not aimless ambition. Whatever your goal, you believe it necessary. It is, perhaps, the one truth you hold sacred.
But no matter your intent - right or wrong - there will be judgment. If it goes against you, if they call you "villain"... Can you live with that forever?
NAME // Amir El Amari
CLASSIFICATION // Human
Your safehouses are quite comfortable, Amir. The basement in Rabat. The Tangier apartment. Your lovely den in Marrakesh. Such hospitality.
Already your mind is churning. You’ll abandon these compromised locations. Start again. Hide deeper. Cease to exist.
And your face. You’ve considered revealing it to those closest to you, but no. Too risky. The mask stays on. Because what’s another year without Nora seeing your eyes, or sharing a smile with your little one?
NAME // Sunwoo Han
CLASSIFICATION // Radiant
Sunwoo Han. Always on the move. Anything to keep you running. You ran after the restaurant was all but destroyed. A "freak storm," they called it. How unusual.
You ran after Venice. Your face was everywhere: enemy of the world. A dangerous Radiant. Those who knew you were horrified. Disgusted, even. Ashamed.
You claim you are innocent - that it wasn't you. Perhaps you even believe it. But can you really outrun what people think of you?
NAME // None
CLASSIFICATION // Cybernetic
How do you exist? Kingdom has no Anti-Yield program. It's a rejected project proposal, nothing more. But here you stand. An Anti-Yield Operative. Curious.
Regardless of origin, your purpose is clear. Kill Radiants. Yet you fight alongside them. Call them allies. Can you survive that fallacy? Does it strain your code? Isn't each directive you resist a step towards breaking down?
I have seen the way you look at Reyna. Even without eyes, the pain is written on your face.
NAME // Klara Böhringer
CLASSIFICATION // Human
Klara Böhringer. Distinguished Inventor Nominee. Kingdom R&D lead at 18. Zehra and Emil must have been so proud.
Perhaps you were too successful. How many breakthroughs did you hand over without thought to the implications? How many innovations did you champion, only for others to twist for a purpose you never dreamed?
Good intentions count for little. Ignorance even less. So I must ask: do you have any idea how bloody your hands truly are?
NAME // Tala Nicole Dimaapi Valdez
CLASSIFICATION // Radiant
Control. Your father had it with his mind. Radiant support technologies that made life livable for millions. A path started with you.
Control. Your mother had it with her service. Transforming her community for the better, through an adherence to justice and law.
Control. Your mentors Ling and Zyanya have it with their power. Living examples of Radiant possibility.
Control. The gift so many yearn to give you. The one thing you will never have.
NAME // [Redacted]
CLASSIFICATION // Radiant*
First Light was not kind to you, John. Or was it Fred? Everywhere I look, a new alias. Marcus. Yohan. Dimitri. But no true name. Do you even know who you were? From what I found at Point Light, I suspect not.
What sort of person has no name? Not an honest one. You are a monster now; perhaps you were a monster before.
If you succeed in finding your answer, I hope you don’t regret it.
NAME // Jamie Adeyemi
CLASSIFICATION // Radiant
Jamie Adeyemi. A gifted troublemaker. So much promise, so much talent, stoked into a single flame. But that fire burns hot.
You embrace it, you feed it, you revel in its brightness. But what of the kindling? A little boy from Peckham, raised by women constantly fretting for your safety. It didn’t stop you then. It doesn’t stop you, now.
So much promise. So many that love you. And you would risk it all, just to burn a little brighter.
NAME // Tayane Alves
CLASSIFICATION // Human
Tayane Alves. Tatá to friends. Daughter of her beloved city.
I have walked your streets; seen your art. Beautiful, if not lacking in discipline. But the abandoned Kingdom plots remain. Splashed with paint. A testament to your victories.
That paint is fading. You’ve been away too long. Kingdom is a weed, and it will return to choke the life from your home. What will become of Bahia, I wonder, when you are indisposed?
NAME // Zyanya Mondragón
CLASSIFICATION // Radiant
Oh, Zyanya. You have seen painful things in your time. And you have gone to extremes in response. I have seen your sanctuary. Those people. Those children. Stolen away from Kingdom's microscope, into a community where broken things can mend. All built by you.
You cherish them, protect them, avenge them.
Yet none hold the same place in your heart as Lucia. Your own blood. The one life you may not be strong enough to save.
NAME // Ling Ying Wei
CLASSIFICATION // Radiant
Ling Ying Wei. The Balm of Shaanxi. All the good you’ve done. The costs endured. Yes, I found the monastery.
Have you forgotten those lessons? Over and over, they taught Balance. Action, reaction. Do you believe this does not apply to you? That a life saved does not mean a life taken? I don’t know the answer. Do you? Or is the thought of it too much? That with every selfless act, your toll keeps climbing?
Yes. Ignorance is safer.
NAME // Kirra Foster
CLASSIFICATION // Radiant
You have quite the résumé, Kirra. The Nimbin Project failure. The Blue Mountains miracle. South Coast. Sawn Rocks. Kangaroo Valley. On and on.
Has the Great Reclaimer lost her way? You fought Kingdom for years; how is VALORANT any different? The money. The agenda. Just another corporate machine. And when they whistle, you come running. A wild beast brought to heel.
Can you remain their dutiful pet? Even as the wilds wither, and your world burns?
NAME // Sasha Novikov
CLASSIFICATION // Human
Sasha Novikov. The man who never missed a shot.
"Never" is a strange word. Think of the weight it carries. It’s a legacy you made before you took the name Sova. From when they called you Filin. Brother of Steel and String.
But "never" is a lie. You’ve missed your shot before. It will happen again. Despite training, despite denial, your aim will falter when it matters most. And then you must ask yourself: what was your legacy even for?
NAME // Sabine Callas
CLASSIFICATION // Human
The esteemed Dr. Callas.
The youngest recipient of the R. Francis Prize. Winner of the Denton Outstanding Innovation Award. And the first Chief Scientific Officer on Kingdom’s Board of Advisors.
And then… the incident. Everything changed after that, didn’t it? You changed. You isolated yourself - shed all the pieces of your life in the name of vengeance.
Have you ever stopped to think about what's left? Of the person that will remain? When all your rage is spent?
NAME // Ryo Kiritani
CLASSIFICATION // Radiant
You leave quite the trail of broken bones, don’t you, Ryo? Tokyo. Yokohama. The Ito Conglomerate. You are so dedicated to your cause. Resolute in crushing your enemies.
A loner is what they call you. A title you have worn with pride. Even as every love, every friendship, buckles under the weight of your ferocity.
But I wonder: when you have finally finished the job you set out to do, will you have anyone left to share in its end?First ventures into Omega Earth[]
Protocol agents arrive at Omega
With VALORANT managing to resolve its standing issues with Fade, the organization immediately resumed work on its plans to venture to Omega Earth, identifying Omega Lisbon as a target destination. Killjoy was eventually successful in completing their Alpha-Omega teleporter, with newest recruit Fade being sent for a test run. Upon her return to Alpha Earth, which confirmed the portal's capacity for future full-staffed missions, Fade also reported about locating a new place of interest for the VP to investigate due to the secrets the location supposedly held. With a final reconnaissance mission to Alpha Lisbon in preparation, the VALORANT Protocol was finally ready to take the fight to Omega.[17]
With suspicions that Omega was taking Alpha's radianite in order to weaponize it, a strike team consisting of Killjoy, Reyna, and Neon was sent to a Kingdom Industries data center in Lisbon so that they could locate the radianite. However, while the team was able to obtain the coordinates for the radianite, they discovered Omega was actually using it for life support systems. Fleeing the site due to the arrival of Atlas and the VALORANT Legion, the Alpha agents also discovered that Omega's VALORANT was a publicly-celebrated operation, in contrast to the covert status of the VALORANT Protocol.[18]
Further investigations revealed Omega had obtained a new power source of some kind and that they had recruited a keeper for it, an antiques expert called Varun Batra. Hoping to find out what Legion would want with someone who worked with a task force recovering historical artifacts, the Protocol tried to see if they could learn anything by looking into his Alpha counterpart, who worked as a REALM operative. However, their correspondence with REALM revealed their Batra had become a fugitive after he had stolen a priceless artifact himself. REALM also insisted that the investigation was an internal matter that shouldn't be inquired about further by others and that they should stay out of the task force's business, but with Alpha Batra being the key to finding out what Legion and Batra's Omega counterpart were up to, the Protocol was pushed into starting their own search for him. Eventually being able to get into contact with him while he was on the run, an agreement was made for the Protocol to pick him up and save him from REALM's pursuits. It turned out Alpha Batra possessed the exact power source they had been looking into - a bracelet holding immense, ancient power with dominion over water. The fugitive accusations had also been a setup; it was actually a rogue operative of REALM who had tried to steal the bracelet for himself, and Batra had escaped with it before the rogue operative could execute him.[19]
Journey into the City of Flowers[]
Harbor and Astra arrive in the City of Flowers in Omega Earth.
Following VALORANT's rescue of Varun Batra from REALM's pursuits, the organization was eventually able to hire him as their 21st agent with the codename "Harbor". The Protocol swiftly worked on re-establishing their anonymity, purging whatever links they made with REALM during the ordeal.
Curiosity regarding Harbor's bracelet artifact led to revelations about its connections with an unknown entity known as the "Guardians," who built a city on each Earth known as the "City of Flowers" which serves as a multiverse nexus. It is thought that the bracelet relic could also act as a key to enter the city, which in turn would activate the nexus. On Alpha, a map leading to the city was found lying in the Gulf of Khambhat off the Indian coast by REALM, but Harbor disclosed that the city had since been decimated and sabotaged when he traveled to its location. With Astra pointing out that the Omega version of the City of Flowers may still be intact, questions now arose as to what would happen should Ω-Harbor activate their version of the nexus. An analysis conducted by Killjoy led to a grim answer: if Legion powered up the Omega nexus with Alpha's version of the city ruined, nothing would be left to absorb the energy shock which would lead to millions of casualties in α-India. Upon Harbor's urgent request, VALORANT formed a strike team consisting of Astra, Skye, and Harbor himself whose mission was to locate the city on Omega and prevent Legion from ever activating their nexus.
When Astra and Harbor finally arrived at the city (with Skye forced to hold back Atlas troops that were on their trail) and used their relics to unlock an entrance to enter, they found Legion agents already waiting for them as they prepared to activate the nexus, which the Alpha team was ultimately unable to prevent. However, the Alpha team's rapid response and resistance prevented the worst of cases from occurring, and the impact of the nexus' activation did not produce the cataclysmic shock on Alpha that the Protocol had feared would be created.[19][20][21]
Project Landfall[]
Protocol agents force their way into Kingdom Corporation's Los Angeles facility
Following a tip from Jett of weird things spotted in a neighborhood of Los Angeles, USA, that she decided to check out herself, VALORANT's attention turned to a Kingdom Corporation facility associated with the reports. Soon after, the Protocol had recruited Mateo Armendáriz De la Fuente as its 22nd agent, "Gekko", after his involvement with the facility through his theft of a group of radivores who were regarded as "property" of the facility. The organization helped with covering Gekko's tracks, but that would not stop K-SEC from dropping the case, and their investigations even reached Brimstone through an old K-SEC colleague who contacted the Protocol leader to see if he had heard anything that could help them tack down their "proprietary goods".[22]
Keeping Jett and Cypher posted undercover in Los Angeles, new intel was then obtained about a cargo pickup occurring in Norway. Investigations by Cypher into the team revealed it contained a scientist from the facility who was part of "Project Landfall", and that they were being escorted to a specialized facility called The Vault in Svalbard, Norway, by three elite hunters. Sova meanwhile was sent to scout the Norwegian facility, but found it completely dead save for a faint beacon. On entering The Vault, he came across a Norwegian woman who was all that remained of the pickup team after the rest had been killed by the cargo they had been sent to retrieve (a radivore that had mimicked the form of a bear and broken out of its enclosure), finding her injured having lost her left arm. Coming to her aid, the two returned to Protocol HQ where the woman was fitted with a new mechanical arm and she was recruited as the organization's 23rd agent, "Deadlock".[22][23]
Upon Deadlock's arrival, the Norwegian warned the organization about Landfall's activities and its dealings with an "Interverse". Being seen as a potentially catastrophic threat that risked a "radivore invasion", the Protocol decided that Landfall now needed to be shut down entirely. Brimstone attempted to settle things peacefully by speaking to his old K-SEC colleague who had contacted him to try and get them to understand what was at stake, but they were only shocked instead that Brimstone would ask them to do something that would trash their reputation, subsequently demanding that Brimstone never contact them again. Left with no choice, the Protocol moved to pull the plug on Landfall themselves, travelling to the facility in Los Angeles to shut down the portal to the Interverse that Kingdom was using. Despite security precautions being in place to prevent access to its controls, the agents were able to find another way to shut the portal down as Wingman used it to enter the Interverse, with what followed next resulting in the portal becoming unstable as it began to emit large energy beams before exploding, producing a massive sinkhole in the area causing the facility's car park located above ground to collapse into it. Having successfully forced Landfall to come to an end, the Protocol team then immediately had to deal with an incoming Legion team that had arrived in the city just afterwards, though the Omega agents were able to be repelled.[24][25]
Scions of Hourglass[]
Omen arrives in Jakarta in search of answers
After the events in Los Angeles, VALORANT's monitoring of Kingdom's response revealed that Landfall leadership had also gone missing, but there was no evidence for the Protocol being responsible for this as a result of the portal's explosion. Investigating further, the involvement of anyone from Omega was able to be ruled out, but a residual image of an hourglass symbol was discovered in the facility's security circuits, left over from someone's jamming technology. The symbol was immediately recognized by Omen as being something from his past, but without his memories he was unable to recall anything else about it. While Fade and Sage worked with Omen to try and help him remember his past, Cypher was able to get a lead in the investigation after he reached out to a radiant hitman that was willing to cooperate in exchange for protection from his current employer. His extraction was approved and the hitman was recruited into VALORANT as its 24th agent, "Iso". From this, it was discovered that the hourglass symbol belonged to Iso's now former employer, the Scions of Hourglass, and that they had been assigning Iso to assassinate anyone with connections to Project Landfall's research. Cypher tried to get more intel out of Iso, but he claimed that he had already told Cypher everything he knew due to how compartmentalized Hourglass' operations were.[24]
Eventually however, Iso came forward with the truth of why he had joined the Protocol. All this time he had still been working for the Scions of Hourglass undercover with a mission to assassinate Omen. He had been biding his time for the right opportunity to complete his mission, but his observations of the Protocol as he got to know them more caused him to reflect on the differences between them and Hourglass, with the Protocol appearing as an actual force of good. Now turning his defection from a deception into reality, Iso proceeded to inform Omen about the assassination order, and with more intel he was able to provide, VALORANT allowed Omen to pursue this link to his past by tracking down Iso's former boss. Cypher and Iso first went to Casablanca, Morocco, to take down an Hourglass cell there that Iso had worked with, where they were able to learn that the boss would be at another Hourglass base in Jakarta, Indonesia. The two agents were then joined by Omen and Sova as they made their way to Jakarta.[26][27]
At the Scions of Hourglass' skyscraper base in Jakarta, Omen entered the building alone, going through every guard on his way up to the penthouse, while the other three agents provided support. At the penthouse, Omen found the boss and confronted him, demanding him to tell Omen about "Shrouded Step", a term that had been found in Iso's assassination order. The boss however was able to reach a handheld device before Omen could stop him, activating a machine built into the ceiling that trapped Omen within an area of energy that began to work on ripping him apart. With Omen contained, the boss then not only complied with Omen's request, informing him that Shrouded Step was a simple kill directive, but also began to talk about Omen's previous role as an assassin for Hourglass known as "Ghost", back when the organization's old mission was to keep the discovery of radianite a secret before it became public knowledge. All of these reveals meanwhile triggered flashbacks for Omen to one particular mission where he had been ordered to assassinate Sabine Callas, now his fellow Protocol colleague Viper. As his memory of these events came back to him, Omen realized this was the mission responsible for turning him into what he was now. He had failed in his attempt to kill Dr. Callas, having been hit with a vial of chemicals in the face as she defended herself, and he had then ended up trapped within a test chamber. As he had tried to break out, Dr. Callas had then activated it, turning the man Ghost into the phantom Omen. As the boss finished taunting Omen and attempted to destroy him by powering up the machine to full, Sova fired a large energy blast into the penthouse at the machine, destroying it and freeing Omen, who jumped at the boss, grabbed him, and took them both through the window before teleporting back up to the penthouse, leaving the boss to fall to his death.[27]
Following the events in Jakarta, Omen left the Protocol on extended leave to recover and come to terms with everything he had learned. Despite his request for VALORANT to not follow his whereabouts during this time, Cypher was able to quickly locate him after his arrival at a library in Edinburgh. He discovered that Omen had been after an Hourglass journal there, before Omen then sent a message to the Protocol to inform them that he had met someone he thought they'd want to meet. A handover was arranged, bringing the journal into VALORANT's possession as well as a new recruit, "Clove". Clove immediately got to work assisting Cypher with decrypting the journal, which led them to uncover the location of the "Elder Grotto", a secret Hourglass base in Jan Mayen. A strike team including Omen (who had now returned to the organization after his time away) was sent to the island, where they were able to seize control of the Elder Grotto from the Scions. With the facility secure, investigations into the site revealed that the SoH had been erasing the history of radiants from public records, whose existence actually dated back centuries before First Light. After dealing with a radiant escapee who had broken out of a specialized containment unit in the aftermath of the battle there (who would eventually join the VP as its 26th agent, "Vyse"), the Protocol worked with her to nullify the threat of the Scions until they were completely shut out of from ever getting back into the Elder Grotto.[28][29]
Operations[]
The location of VALORANT Protocol HQ
The VALORANT Protocol is completely independent, though they do require a backer to fund their technology. Their existence is kept hidden from the rest of the world, with the Protocol making sure any traces are scrubbed from the media. Aside from their enemies on Omega, only one other organization on Alpha appears to know of their existence, the Scions of Hourglass. The Protocol's base of operations is also kept well hidden, being located on a remote volcanic island.[30][31]
New agents who join VALORANT must leave behind their past lives and occupations, though they can still keep in contact with close relatives. Most agents are still able to go out in public thanks to the Protocol's methods for erasing, obscuring, and modifying info about them in the public sphere, though for agents with more troubled pasts and infamous reputations this takes more effort to achieve in order to let these agents no longer have to hide from the public, potentially with unwelcome costs. New agents are given a call sign to protect their identity and are required to refer to all other agents by their own call signs. Agents are also expected to be professional and battle-ready at all times. Previous regulation also discouraged agents from fraternization as workplace relationships can create complications, but after a romantic relationship developed between agents Killjoy and Raze, policy was updated to allow agents to have personal attachments to each other at their own risk.[32][33][34][35][36][37][38]
A VALORANT strike team leaves Rabat after a successful mission
Whenever the VP has been seen in action, it has mostly been in response to spike threats. At times, leadership has appeared to keep some of the information behind their missions, such as the identities of the perpetrators, on a need-to-know basis for their agents. VALORANT usually sends out strike teams of about five agents, though occasionally they have responded to attacks with smaller or larger teams. Some missions have also used a secondary team, referred to as "Team 2", to investigate an area after the primary strike team has completed their initial mission there.[39]
Missions[]
| Mission | Assigned agents | Report |
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| Venice Mission |  Phoenix (Field) Sage (Comms)
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| Rabat Strike Team |  Killjoy Phoenix Viper
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| S22 Strike Team | Phoenix Yoru
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| The Omega Project: Everett-Linde Recovery Team |  Cypher Viper
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| The Omega Project: Building a functional Alpha-Omega teleporter | Killjoy Neon Fade
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| Istanbul Strike Team |  Breach Chamber Cypher KAY/O Neon Sova
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| α-Lisbon Reconnaissance Team | KAY/O Killjoy Sova
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| Ω-Lisbon Strike Team | Killjoy Neon Reyna
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| The Search for Varun Batra |  Brimstone Omen Skye Cypher (Intel)
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| The Journey to the Omega Nexus |  Astra Harbor Skye
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| Thimphu Strike Team |  Jett Phoenix Sage Sova Viper
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| Svalbard Mission | Sova (Field) Cypher (Intel)
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| Los Angeles Strike Team | Brimstone Deadlock Gekko Reyna Sova
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| Jakarta Strike Team | Cypher Iso Omen Sova Harbor (Team 2)
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| Jan Mayen Strike Team |  Clove Iso KAY/O Omen Sage Astra (Team 2) Deadlock (Team 2) Fade (Team 2) Skye (Team 2) Yoru (Team 2)
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| Seoul Strike Team | Chamber Jett Omen Sage (Comms) Yoru
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| Bangkok Strike Team | Brimstone Phoenix Raze Tejo Vyse
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Technology[]
- Firearms: The Protocol uses a wide variety of firearms that agents go into battle with.
- VLT/R: Referred to by agents as the Vulture, the VLT/R is a tilt-engine VTOL aircraft used by the Protocol for transport. It is able to instantly accelerate to and decelerate from high speeds, and is also designed to contain an FTL drive for use under specific circumstances. It can also be set to automatic pilot and be controlled while unmanned.[40]
- The aircraft bears resemblance to a Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey.
- Alpha-Omega teleporter: Developed from schematics obtained by Chamber, constructed by Killjoy, and powered by Neon, the Protocol uses an Alpha-Omega teleporter to travel between Earths.
- When Max Bot enacted his revenge on the Protocol, he hijacked the teleporter to make it transport users into the bot's simulated "Danger Dome" arenas instead.
- Spike: The Protocol was able to construct its own spikes by reverse engineering them from the spikes they had obtained from Omega's attacks.
- Cross-dimensional comm arrays: The Protocol uses cross-dimensional comms to keep in contact with agents operating on Omega.
Agents[]
| No. | ID | Name | Call Sign | Origin | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 |
|
Liam Byrne | Brimstone |  United States
|
Human |
| 02 |
|
Sabine Callas | Viper | United States
| |
| 03 |
|
Omen | Radiant* | ||
| 04 |
|
Klara Böhringer | Killjoy |  Germany
|
Human |
| 05 |
|
Amir El Amari | Cypher |  Morocco
| |
| 06 |
|
Alexander (Sasha) Novikov | Sova |  Russia
| |
| 07 |
|
Wei Ling Ying | Sage |  China
|
Radiant |
| 08 | |||||
| 09 |
|
Jamie Adeyemi | Phoenix |  England
|
Radiant |
| 10 |
|
Han Sunwoo | Jett |  South Korea
| |
| 11 |
|
Zyanya Mondragón | Reyna |  Mexico
| |
| 12 |
|
Tayane Alves | Raze |  Brazil
|
Human |
| 13 |
|
Erik Torsten | Breach |  Sweden
| |
| 14 |
|
Kirra Foster | Skye |  Australia
|
Radiant |
| 15 |
|
Kiritani Ryo | Yoru |  Japan
| |
| 16 |
|
Efia Danso | Astra |  Ghana
| |
| 17 |
|
KAY/O | Alternate Timeline Earth | Cybernetic | |
| 18 |
|
Vincent Fabron | Chamber |  France
|
Human |
| 19 |
|
Tala Nicole Dimaapi Valdez | Neon |  Philippines
|
Radiant |
| 20 | 
|
Hazal Eyletmez | Fade |  Türkiye
| |
| 21 | 
|
Varun Batra | Harbor |  India
|
Human |
| 22 | 
|
Mateo Armendáriz De la Fuente | Gekko | United States
|
|
| 23 | 
|
Iselin Solem | Deadlock |  Norway
|
Human |
| 24 | 
|
Li Zhao Yu | Iso | China
|
Radiant |
| 25 | 
|
Clove |  Scotland
| ||
| 26 | 
|
Vyse | |||
| 27 | 
|
Tejo |  Colombia
|
Human | |
| 28 | 
|
Waylay |  Thailand
|
Radiant | |
Agent 08[]
Very little is known about Agent 08, though they have been reported to be absent, whether that's because they are on mission, on leave, or MIA. Like all other agents, they had their own locker at HQ, however their agent number and ID image had been removed.[7][41]
References[]
- ↑ Game Informer's VALORANT preview exclusive.
- ↑ Reddit Narrative AMA: VALORANT's founders
- ↑ Reddit Narrative AMA: Omen and VALORANT's origin
- ↑ The Story of VALORANT so far
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 VALORANT Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Early VALORANT operations
- ↑ DUALITY taking place 10 years after First Light.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Reddit Narrative AMA: Agent 08
- ↑ VALORANT - DUELISTS Cinematic.
- ↑ VALORANT - DUALITY Cinematic.
- ↑ DUALITY taking place a day after the events of DUELISTS.
- ↑ VALORANT Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Skye's induction
- ↑ Reddit Narrative AMA: Retake's place on the timeline
- ↑ VALORANT - RETAKE Cinematic.
- ↑ Reddit Fracture AMA: VALORANT's interest in Fracture.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Range EP 3 Lore updates
- ↑ 4.0 Astra Email
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 Range EP 4 Lore updates
- ↑ SHATTERED cinematic
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Range EP 5 Lore updates
- ↑ REVELATION
- ↑ 6.0 Range Lore
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Range EP 6 Lore updates
- ↑ UNMADE
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Range EP 7 Lore updates
- ↑ Sunset Reveal Trailer
- ↑ 7.12 Range Lore
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 RECKONING
- ↑ Range/Lore/EP8
- ↑ Range/Lore/EP9
- ↑ Reddit Narrative AMA: VALORANT's backer
- ↑ 4.01 Breach email
- ↑ VALORANT Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Policies for new agents
- ↑ Methods to letting VALORANT agents not have to hide in public
- ↑ Reddit Narrative AMA: VALORANT call signs
- ↑ Reddit Narrative AMA: Fraternization within VALORANT
- ↑ VALORANT Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Fraternization within VALORANT (Discord link)
- ↑ VALORANT Lore Discord Narrative AMA: VALORANT regulations
- ↑ 6.01 Viper Email
- ↑ Reddit Narrative AMA: VALORANT strike teams
- ↑ VLT/R's FTL drive
- ↑ WARM UP
