AGENTS
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Duelist
Initiator
01Jett Jett
CLASS DUELIST
Representing her home coutry of South Korea, Jett’s agile and evasive fighting style lets her take risks no one else can. She runs circles around every skirmish, cutting enemies before they even know what hit them.
A radiant from Seoul, South Korea, Han Sunwoo had her life forever changed by one person her counterpart from Omega Earth. As a chef in her early life, Han was shot and hunted down by Jett outside the restaurant she worked at. In the ensuing fight, a “freak storm” was caused as a result of the wind-powered abilities of the two Hans that all but destroyed the restaurant. α-Han was forced to flee the scene soon after she made it out of the encounter.
Later on, Han would be recruited by the VALORANT Protocol, becoming the Jett of her own world. While working for the Protocol however, Jett arrived once more and caused a catastrophic incident in Venice that destroyed part of the city. With the general population however being completely oblivious about how their world had divided from Omega after First Light, when
Authorities investigated footage and found someone with Jett’s exact resemblance at the scene, it was her they issued an arrest warrant for. Though Jett had not had anything to do with the mission, the rest of the world now believed that she was a threat to them. She couldn’t explain that it wasn’t her to those she know outside of VALORANT, who were left feeling feeling disgusted, horrified, and ashamed at her, and Jett forcing her to go on the run once more. Unable to reveal any info associated with the VALORANT Protocol and unable to convince anyone of her innocence in a population that knows nothing of alternate Earths, to the rest of Alpha Jett remains one of its most dangerous radiants. Such a judgement had forced Jett to use disguises whenever she would go out, but more recently the frustration has become too much for Jett to care anymore whether she’s spotted or not. Most of the Protocol don’t have too much to say about their counterparts, but for Jett, what her own has put her through has made it become deeply personal to her.
iso 02 ISO CLASS DUELIST
Chinese fixer for hire Iso goes into a flow state to dismantle the opposition. Reconfiguring ambient energy into bulletproof protection, he advances with focus towards his next duel to the death.
Chinese hitman Li Zhao Yu is a radiant with the ability to transmute ambient, intangible radianite energy into solid, durable constructs. A former assassin for the Scions of Hourglass, Li gained a fearsome reputation for his high effectiveness. Though it was said that anyone who
would go up against him would disappear for good, rumors still spread beyond about the “Dead Lilac”, a bulletproof wizard who could take out entire squads with one round and condemn targets to their fate in a flash of purple.
Li had been crossing off targets related to Kingdom Corporation’s Project Landfall when one day the Scions of Hourglass changed focus and gave him a new target: a former assassin of theirs known as “Ghost”, who they had just discov-
ered was now the phantom agent of the VALORANT Protocol called Omen. To make matters more convenient, VALORANT themselves had also put themselves in a position where Li had become of interest to them anyway. The organization had attacked a Landfall facility just before Li’s last assignment, and they were now investigating the unrelated disappearance of Landfall’s leadership, people Li had been assassinating. When a contact from the Protocol reached out to ask for his cooperation, Li saw this as his opportunity to get to Omen. Pretending to defect from the Scions of Hourglass, Li was extracted by the Protocol and recruited as its twenty-fourth agent, “Iso”.
With Iso and the orders from his superiors being responsible for the disappearances they had been investigating, VALORANT was eager to know as much about the Scions of Hourglass as possible. Iso made sure at first to stick to his mission and relent against their inquiries, constantly claiming that the compartmentalized nature of Hourglass’ operations meant he didn’t have much intel to give them, all while he was biding his time for the right moment to strike and take out Omen. But the longer Iso stayed among the Protocol agents, the more he started to see the differences between the two organizations. In contrast to Hourglass’ ruthless missions and isolated work, VALORANT’s agents had a brightness to them both in the field with their pride in their mission and out of the field in the time they spent with one another. Going through the process of becoming a VALORANT agent had just been a means to an end for Iso, but in getting to know the organization more his perspective had now been completely changed.
Turning his apparent defection from a deception into reality, Iso fully embraced his allegiance to the Protocol. With Omen having been obsessed over Iso’s links to his forgotten past ever since he had arrived, Iso proceeded to inform him about the assassination order. With more intel he was able to provide, he also joined VALORANT’s efforts to assist Omen in his pursuit for answers, leading them to a successful mission against the Scions of Hourglass at a base in Jakarta, taking out Iso’s old boss in the process. With Omen satisfied for the meantime with what he learned there, Iso now continues as an agent of the VALORANT Protocol with a new purpose, no longer a killer to be controlled, but a force of good.
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03Neon Neon
CLASS DUELIST
Filipino Agent, Neon, surges forward at shocking speeds, discharging bursts of bioelectric radiance as fast as her body generates it. She races ahead to catch enemies off guard, then strikes them down quicker than lightning.
Raised in Manila, Philippines, Tala Nicole Dimaapi Valdez is a Radiant empowered by her bioelectricity which has enlaced itself with Earth’s radianite mesh. A young but former veteran at K-SEC, she was recruited by the VALORANT Protocol as part of their Omega Project, specifically to utilize her electric abilities as they attempted to power an Alpha-Omega teleporter. Accepting a position there as their nineteenth agent, “Neon”, Valdez left her home to join the Protocol and now seeks to help establish a stable connection that will finally allow the VP to cross over to Omega Earth.
With her electrifying speed allowing her to charge into the heat of the battle, Neon
is not one who can promise her allies that she’ll stay out of harm’s way. While she is confident in her abilities and the value it can bring during gunfights, she can sometimes struggle to control her electric powers and thus makes it a point to keep them in check at all times.
Neon has strong and close ties with her family; as soon as she arrived at the VALORANT Protocol headquarters, she made sure to call her parents to update them on the news.[16] According to Chamber, Neon has a strong sense of service which she gets from her family. She also cares a lot for her teammates during missions, reminding them to take care and to stay alive because as she states, she hates making new friends. Neon is a young Filipina woman with olive skin and a short stature. She sports an athletic attire with black and blue running leggings along with a pair of sneakers. She also wears a dark-blue cropped vest that
appears to act as electrical conduits for her powers. Her arms and face have light blue patterns that can illuminate with her radiant abilities. She has shoulder-length shaggy hair, colored mainly electric blue with streaks of yellow throughout and wears it in a half-up pigtails hairstyle. She also wears a belt and accessorizes with a golden bracelet on each arm.
When using her radiant powers to channel electricity through her body, the patterns on her arms, face, as
well as her eyes glow light blue along with her hair, which stands up due to the electricity.
01Astra Astra
CLASS Controllers
Ghanaian Agent Astra harnesses the energies of the cosmos to reshape battlefields to her whim. With full command of her astral form and a talent for deep strategic foresight, she’s always eons ahead of her enemy’s next move.
Hailing from Accra, Ghana, Efia Danso is a Radiant with pow-
ers relating to cosmic energies, contained by a golden Guardian gauntlet. She uses these in her role as an astral guardian, ensuring that any universe-altering events do not have major consequences.
Recruited by the VALORANT Protocol as its sixteenth agent, “Astra”, she continues to serve as an astral guardian in between her missions for the VP, though at times her two roles have come together. When the Protocol was keeping track of the fugitive Varun Batra whilst he was on the run from his former employer in Southern Asia, Astra discovered Batra was also in possession of a Guardian artifact, a set of five rings and a bracelet. Further compelled to bring him in, the VP was able to rescue and subsequently recruit Batra as agent “Harbor”. With access to the bracelet, Astra was able to deduce from engravings left on it that it could function as a key to a lost Guardian city that she had never been able to find
in her time as a Guardian. To her surprise however, Harbor revealed he had found it before; the “City of Flowers” was located in the Western Ghats of India, but Harbor had arrived there only to find it decimated and sabotaged.
Still hoping to salvage something from this situation, Astra’s attention turned to Omega and the possibility for a counterpart of the city to also exist there. Further research revealed that it did indeed
exist, but the Protocol wasn’t the only group interested in it - so were their Omega counterparts, the VALORANT Legion, and with their motives unknown and Alpha’s city in ruins, the possibility of Legion powering up their own city posed a catastrophic threat to millions of α-Indians. Together with Harbor and Skye, Astra crossed over to Omega to make the long journey from Lisbon to Southern India, all the while being pursued by Omega security forces. When they eventually arrived, the found Legion had gotten there first and was preparing to power up the city. Astra could only get a brief look around before the team needed to disable the city’s ability to be powered up and then retreat from the site.
Having been able to prevent the worst for Alpha but unable to access the city under the control of Legion and Omega security, Astra still has much to learn about the Guardians and their history.
02Brimstone Brimstone
CLASS Controllers
Joining from the U.S.A., Brimstone’s orbital arsenal ensures his squad always has the advantage. His ability to deliver utility precisely and from a distance make him an unmatched boots-on-the-ground commander. Liam “Brimstone” Byrne is the commander of the VALORANT Protocol, a secretive organization tasked with protecting Earth from cataclysmic disasters and dangerous situations involving radianite. A former firefighter and soldier from Baltimore, By-
rne is fiercely loyal to all his allies and organizations, always keeps his squadmates close. But although he would do anything for them, Byrne hasn’t always been able to save everyone. After the death of a close friend, Tariq Porter, his loss greatly affected Byrne, haunted by what had happened despite all his own best efforts to save him. It was around this time that he would then join Kingdom Corporation, giving him something at a time when he needed it most. Byrne would go on to become a veteran of Kingdom’s K-SEC
branch, once again developing a strong loyalty to his employer.
Shortly after the events of First Light the VALORANT Protocol was then founded, with Byrne leaving K-SEC to join forces with fellow Kingdom colleagues Sabine Callas, Klara Böhringer, and the phantom known as Omen, taking on an undercover life by the call sign “Brimstone”. Under Brimstone’s leadership, the organization grew ever larger, recruiting more agents from across the globe as they worked to stop agents from the alternate-dimension Omega Earth from stealing radianite from Alpha. While operations were mostly successful and initially kept heavily compartmentalized even between agents, the failure of one particular mission in Venice and the catastrophe that occurred as a result caused VALORANT to reconsider its approach, moving forward with agents all getting to know one another and being assigned on strike teams together. All this time, Brimstone’s position has left him with more of a back-line presence, but life behind a desk has never been of interest to him, and he will still make sure to be present in the field from time to time.
Though no longer part of Kingdom while at VALORANT, Brimstone’s loyalty to the corporation’s vision meanwhile still remained. But when it was not agents of Omega’s VALORANT Legion for once but Kingdom themselves who posed a risk of causing a catastrophe on Alpha, Brimstone found his feelings being tested. When two of the Protocol’s latest recruits arrived having recently been involved with a Kingdom project called Landfall, Brimstone wasn’t ready to make an enemy out of Kingdom, adamant that all they did was for their mission to make
the world better and safer, despite growing concerns about what exactly Kingdom was up to. But when it was discovered that the corporation was using a portal to access the interverse and that doing so risked a major radivore invasion, Brimstone was left with no choice but to have it shut down. Initially unable to convince ex-colleagues of the imminent danger and the need for Landfall to be abandoned, Brimstone then personally led a mission straight to the facility in Los Angeles where the portal was located, and the Protocol shut it down for good.
s to pick up the pieces from Landfall’s demise, and he now has a renewed focus on what needs to come next. Kingdom may have said they would make the world a safer place, but what’s truly needed to keep Alpha safe is for Brimstone and the Protocol to deal with the real enemy - the agents of Omega.
03Omen Omen
CLASS Controllers
A phantom of a memory, Omen hunts in the shadows. He renders enemies blind, teleports across the field, then lets paranoia take hold as his foe scrambles to learn where he might strike next.
For many years the phantom radiant Omen had no memory of his past and how he came to be in his current state. Firstly working alongside Dr. Sabine Callas (one of his only apparent links to who he used to be) at Kingdom Corporation, he would then go on join her in the founding of the VALORANT Protocol. During his time as a secret agent, Omen was driven by his search to discover who he previously was. Without answers he was unable to find peace, his predicament being only a nightmare for him to live in.
It was then after over a decade of time that a path towards the truth finally appeared when the Protocol came across an hourglass symbol after one of their missions, something that immediately triggered a sense of recognition in Omen. Soon after, VALORANT then ended up meeting the person responsible for this symbol appearing, the young assassin Li Zhao Yu, who was recruited into the organization as “Iso”. At first it was hard to get much information out of Iso as he shut down many queries about his own past, but eventually he came forward with his own truth; he had still been working undercover for his former employer, the Scions of Hourglass, and he had joined VALORANT in order to access his next target: Omen. It was only after seeing the differences between the from being rediscovered, as an assassin known as “Ghost”. But the boss’ taunting triggered something more in Omen, as more memories of his past began to return. He could suddenly remember the last day before he had changed completely and what he had been doing. As Ghost, he had been sent on a mission to kill Sabine Callas, his old Kingdom colleague and now his fellow Protocol
agent “Viper”, just as she and Kingdom had been about to rediscover radianite. That last day was the moment of the assassination attempt, but he realized he had failed. Dr. Callas had been able to fall to his death.
After the events in Jakarta, Omen now has the truth behind how he came to be, but it has only led to
more questions and frustration, with Omen finding himself unfocused instead of at peace as he thought he would be once he got his answers. Now needing to find his own path in light of what he has uncovered, Omen has stepped away from the Protocol for now while he recovers. But no matter who he used to be, Omen has since made a new family in VALORANT, and he knows he will return to them in time.
01Breach Breach CLASS
Initiator
Breach, the bionic Swede, fires powerful, targeted kinetic blasts to aggressively clear a path through enemy ground. The damage and disruption he inflicts ensures no fight is ever fair. A criminal from Sweden, Erik Torsten was set to be convicted along with the rest of his family for their crimes. As he was a double congenital amputee however, the judge was pitiful and lenient towards him, giving him a smaller sentence that soon allowed Erik to return to his old ways. Building himself his own mechanical arms to use, Erik would hit back with his own criminal assignments, becoming so notorious for the terrible things he had done that he eventually had to go into hiding and effectively exile himself from his home. During these times, he also encountered the young Brazilian Tayane Alves, who worked alongside him for a while and provided some major upgrades to his arms, resulting in the
carbon-steel titanium-plating version that he uses to this day.
Later approached to become a VALORANT agent, Torsten accepted the offer though his induction was not a smooth affair. Leaving behind his criminal life in line with VP procedure, his records were sealed and he became the Protocol’s
thirteenth agent, “Breach”. Despite now serving for the secret organization with more dignified actions however, the consequences of his criminal past forever remain, leaving him a man that, for all he does now, can still never truly return home. If there’s anyone who knows the risk - and the thrill - of their job as a VALORANT agent best, it’s probably Breach. This bionic man has hinted at having a long history of being in the battlefield, and any shootout is always fun for him. He mainly treats his current occupation in VALORANT as nothing more than another post wherein he drops into the fight, wins, and gets paid. However, he’s also looking for excitement and will not hesitate to wreck havoc along the way.
According to Sova in his voicelines, Breach lacks patience and tends to rush into fights while leaving his team behind. The Swede has also earned the ire of Yoru for being a loudmouth who doesn’t shut up. With his gimmick for aggression, Breach believes in getting the job done quick, and when the guns are being held up on his face, that’s when he knows that it’s just another Tuesday.
02Sova Sova
CLASS Initiator
Born from the eternal winter of Russia’s tundra, Sova tracks, finds, and eliminates enemies with ruthless efficiency and precision. His custom bow and incredible scouting abilities ensure that even if you run, you cannot hide. Hailing from the town of Severomorsk, in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, Sasha Novikov is an archer who became an agent for the VALORANT Protocol as its sixth recruit, “Sova”. With his right eye replaced with a mechanical one after he lost it, Sova primarily serves as the team’s scout, gathering information and searching for targets using olden methods should technology come up short. Being highly capable and reliable both in the field and with his work, whilst also having experience with multiple radianite-related events (having traveled through a rift and having met his Omega counterpart), Sova has earned a reputation of being one of the Protocol’s most trusted agents, especially to the organization’s commander, Brimstone.
A humble hunter that has taken down man and beast alike, Sova works carefully and with precision, scouting around and retrieving information before taking out the enemy. As he has told Phoenix, Sova believes in the value of patience and strategic thinking. Being the team player that he is, Sova always commends his allies and never hesitates to voice out his vote of confidence in them. He seems to value the team to the point of risking his own life, to which Brimstone reminds him that it is equally important that he looks out after himself.
Cypher has described the hunter to be a ‘measured’ person, referring to his calm and collected nature. Described as a man of principle, Sova values honesty and transparency, and he expects nothing less but the same from his teammates. Sova has a fair skin tone and sports long blond hair that flows down to his shoulders. against his left forearm. His bow is slung across his back in an easy-to-reach position. His boots take on the appearance of owls. His quiver of shock darts is located on the side of his right thigh and he has a hunting knife strapped against his left calf.
03Tejo Tejo
CLASS Initiator
A veteran intelligence consultant from Colombia, Tejo’s ballistic guidance system pressures the enemy to relinquish their ground - or their lives. His targeted strikes keep opponents off balance and under his heel.
Colombian Tejo is the VALORANT Protocol’s twenty-seventh recruit. A formerly-retired
intelligence consultant, his unexpected arrival at the Protocol comes as a surprise to the rest of its agents, returning from a period of now interrupted leave to find a stranger suddenly wandering around HQ. Tejo represents Colombia as the 27th Agent to join the VALORANT Protocol. He makes use of a bracer similar to the one used by Brimstone. In Tejo’s case, however, the bracer holds and launches ordnance instead of acting as something he uses to call in his support like how Brimstone’s equipment works. That function is instead carried out by his glasses which seem to display an interface in augmented reality whenever he needs to deploy his long-distance ordnance, namely his Guided Salvo and Armageddon. It is implied through his voice line interactions with Brimstone[1] that the two individuals share a history with each other. It is unclear at what point in their lives they shared this history, but
it seems that it left the two individuals at odds ever since. There is a possibility that it may have been sometime during Brimstone’s time at K-SEC. Looking at the similarity of the kind of equipment they use, it is likely that Tejo was also a member of K-SEC and it was from there that he got his equipment.
All of the above is largely theory crafting and speculation as, like most of the other members of the Protocol, there is very little that we know for certain about Tejo’s past.
Tejo presents himself as a no-nonsense and well-put-together man. His speech and voice lines also seem to indicate that he has full trust in his combat experience as he is willing to advise his teammates on how to fight around his utility and how they can keep themselves safe. The way he speaks these lines, however, seems to indicate that these are all troubles that he has faced and worked past himself, such as the line he shares on pulling the trigger. Despite all this, Tejo nonetheless seems to be able to take this work in stride and can very matter-of-factly encourage his companions ahead with dry remarks on death on the battlefield, both among the enemy’s forces and his own.
Sage 01 Sage
CLASS Sentinel
The bastion of China, Sage creates safety for herself and her team wherever she goes. Able to revive fallen friends and stave off aggressive pushes, she provides a calm center to a hellish fight. Originating from the Shaanxi province in China, Sage is a Radiant healer whose capacity to turn the tide of battle is immeasurable. She is the sev-
enth Agent to join the VALORANT PROTOCOL.
Sage has a kind and compassionate personality, considered by some to be almost ‘mother-like’. While still relatively young, Sage exudes an inner wisdom of someone much older and more mature[1]. She genuinely cares about the wellbeing of her al-
lies, and places great emphasis on collaboration and team victories over personal glory.
As suggested by the DIE FOR YOU Music Video, Sage’s primary character flaw stems from this caring nature: Sage feels a compulsion to spread her healing to everyone she can; she considers it her duty to solve all the problems and ailments of those she holds close. This insistence on protecting her team forms a ‘fatal flaw’ of sorts. One of the best in-game representations of this is her voiceline interaction with Viper. Sage is a Geomancer, someone with the power to manipulate the Earth. She channels her abilities through a set of crystalline Radianite orbs, which she carries on her belt. Using these, Sage is able to create physical structures in the world.
Due to the color and texture of these ‘structures’. such as the wall she summons with her Barrier Orb, a common assumption is that they are made of Ice, which has become a popular and widely-shared fan theory, despite it being known to be false. Another focal point of Sage’s ability set are her healing powers, which she refers to in various voicelines as her ‘gift’ to give out.
While Sage’s orbs are an integral part of her kit, they ar-
en’t the only expression of her radiance - for example, we see her healing Brimstone in DIE FOR YOU without one, and she doesn’t need an orb to cast Resurrection, her most powerful ability. They are instead a self-made “tool” that helps her channel her powers better, and nothing more.
02Chamber Chamber
CLASS Sentinel
Well-dressed and well-armed, French weapons designer Chamber expels aggressors with deadly precision. He leverages his custom arsenal to hold the line and pick off enemies from afar, with a contingency built for every plan.
The Frenchman Vincent Fabron lives his life in search of one necessary goal, willing to sacrifice anything that gets in his way of achieving it. He has spent much of his time involved with combat and weapons, having worked for the French military before becoming a PMC marksman and then a weapons designer for Kingdom Defense. His employment at Kingdom was only a stepping stone for him though, as by this point he was already set on his path in pursuit of his sacred truth.
One such event that exemplified Fabron’s will to continue with his goals no matter the cost surrounds his actions at the Everett-Linde Research Facility in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, where he traveled to around 9 AFL and began communicating with employees there. Fabron soon
found himself barred from entering facility grounds shortly after attempting to access their systems but eventually returned to reinstate his security clearance and obtain schematics. However, he was soon forced to make a decision that required him to destroy the facility’s Large Radian Collider. Having already made contact with his Omega counterpart, together they fired on the LRC on the day the lab’s people were celebrating its supposed success. The resulting explosion killed many of its employees and the facility was reduced to a husk.
as well as helping with its power issues by recommending a prospective agent with radiant abilities that could help.
Even with his new partnership with the VALORANT Protocol though, Chamber’s necessary goal still remains to be achieved. With some of his fellow agents (including some of Earth’s most skilled investigators and devoted defenders) already having their suspicions about his motives, Chamber has to tread more carefully than ever before if he is to reach his final objective - and be prepared for judgement when the truth of his character is revealed as a result.
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03Cypher Cypher
CLASS Sentinel
The Moroccan information broker, Cypher is a oneman surveillance network who keeps tabs on the enemy’s every move. No secret is safe. No maneuver goes unseen. Cypher is always watching.
Cypher is a Moroccan information broker with a dark and mysterious past. He has no ties to anyone and seems
to have ‘lost’ his family. Cypher’s surveillance skills and self-made network allow him to control the entire battlefield, always watching the enemy’s every move.
Cypher has a long past as an information broker, dealing in carefully-buried secrets and hidden truths, which gives him a uniquely mysterious and dark theme. Contrasting to this
is an unusually playful and mirthful attitude, frequently cracking jokes, although his sense of humor has a tendency to be rather morbid at times.
An example of this impish behavior is how Cypher frequently ‘borrows’ small items from his fellow Agents, and generally tampers with the gadgets and abilities of other tech users on the team. This includes him stealing transmitters and condenser cables from Killjoy, and taking servos from Breach’s arms, then bugging them with microphones to listen in on his actions. This attitude apparently extends to borrowing Radianite from the other Agents as well.
However, while it is often disguised under his usual demeanor, Cypher does let some of the darker aspects of his character show on occasion (this can be heard most frequently in his voicelines addressing the enemy team). Examples of this include almost ‘reveling’ in his history as a killer, or threats to go
after the enemy’s families.
Another major part of Cypher’s character that he lets shine through is his considerable experience in the world of information-gathering, and obvious pride in his prowess. He has built up a name for himself as a master in his art, who can dig up even the most well-hidden secrets with ease when he has a mind to... or when he’s been paid the right price.
Cypher’s abilities primarily deal with this aspect of his character - being the man behind the monitor, gathering invaluable information through a sprawling selfmade network of technology laced across any given map.
‘being revealed to the world as who he is, and being watched intently by everyone, just as he’s watched them for so long.
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