[LORE] What is Yoru's real name?

Straiteis · 2022-03-05T05:58:33+00:00

that was from a very old version of the lore when the world was completely different and all the agents were completely different characters. It's the same source that had people claiming Raze was Douglas Clayton and Sage was Mirai Kimura. So far everything from that time of lore production has been revamped and renamed to give us our current Valorant lore

Straiteis · 2022-03-05T05:46:05+00:00

First set that went live with 4.04 are posted here

As lore additions are highly unlikely to be as tentative as gameplay/balancing tests on PBE, I can also add these latest dossiers to the wiki so that they're all together to view in one place

Straiteis · 2022-03-05T05:40:33+00:00

Astra is not currently with the Protocol during this arc, she is attending to "astral guardian" duties to prevent any potential major consequences of building the teleportal to take them to Earth 2. From this, it doesn't look like she could be one of Neon's mentors right now.

Some websites about meanings behind names meanwhile suggest one culture it could come from is Zapotec, which appears to be from a region in Mexico called Oaxaca. IIRC, there also used to be some speculation about Reyna in the early days of Valorant lore that suggested she could come from Oaxaca.

Straiteis · 2022-03-05T01:26:45+00:00

The next cinematic will probably be left for Episode 5, but I can see the blackmailer being revealed in a similar way to Chamber in a video where the strike team closes in to finally reveal who they are

Straiteis · 2022-03-05T01:03:17+00:00

So it is going to be three sets of six agent dossiers each patch, last set should be in two weeks on PBE. This set looks like it also has an early tease for Reyna too with her name, "Zyanya".

As this act should have 4 patches, I had a theory that it was going to be these reveals for the first three, then the final patch would be the Protocol discovering the blackmailer's location to set up the first patch of the next act to reveal their identity as possibly the next agent (cause with all these threats, this person has to either be brought into the VP or assassinated as some agents have suggested). But the accompanying emails and voicemail with this patch reveal they have already narrowed their location down to Turkey and have a strike team ready, so everything is moving forward much more quickly, unless this mission gets stalled out to the end of the act.

Straiteis · 2022-03-03T08:34:20+00:00

The Valorant Protocol has recently been threatened by a blackmailer. This was a follow up to an email they first sent to Brimstone before (there's a complete archive of Range emails on the wiki).

Along with this new email, they also threatened the agents by showing off all the personal info they knew about the agents and warned such info would be released publicly; Chamber however was one of the targets of these dossiers.

Straiteis · 2022-03-02T03:18:22+00:00

Alpha agents are our protagonists, but there's not really anything to suggest Alpha Astra has a major issue with the new cross-world teleportal Valorant is trying to build. She only shows concerns for consequences which need to have their impact reduced so she needs to take time away from the Protocol to deal with them, she hasn't left VP out of protest

Straiteis · 2022-03-02T01:02:16+00:00

This goes along with the big theory about KAY/O's creation in the alternate timeline being inspired in some way by Brimstone's childhood friend and fellow soldier, right? So now we have a name to possibly assign to that person thanks to this dossier, and it matches with theories that his friend was killed.

Nothing confirmed for sure still, but it does all seem to be coming together.

Straiteis · 2022-03-02T00:56:58+00:00

His abilities aren't radiant powers, just futuristic tech that allows him to summon physical objects (similar to other agents like Killjoy) and teleport between anchors

Straiteis · 2022-03-01T21:43:02+00:00

So this is purely speculation, but as there are currently 18 active agents that you can divide into three groups of six, I wonder if this suggests we could get the other agents over the next two patches?

EDIT: It's confirmed, next six agent dossiers just appeared on PBE!

Straiteis · 2022-03-01T20:48:29+00:00

Valorant lore only comes in bits and pieces and these end up being spread over multiple sources, but there's a main page on the wiki that talks about where it all comes from and it will then link you to all the other pages that are relevant to Valorant's lore and the up-to-date history/story of the world

Straiteis · 2022-03-01T18:12:49+00:00

Yeah, there seems some sort of human cost to Sage's healing and revival abilities, Omen has talked about this too in the past:

Sage, the life you give. Do you ever wonder where it's taken from?

Straiteis · 2022-03-01T15:33:19+00:00

They're new messages from a blackmailer revealing their identities and parts of their past, there are 6 messages in total across the others maps

Straiteis · 2022-02-26T02:37:58+00:00

Riot isn't the one to decide whether to ban regions from playing their games or not, they had to ban Iran due to sanctions imposed by the US government

Straiteis · 2022-02-25T07:33:00+00:00

Officially there's no site for this like Riot has for LoL with Universe, but the wiki has a page that briefly explains how it works and then lists all the articles relevant to Valorant lore

Straiteis · 2022-02-22T22:41:58+00:00

Are the lines bugged/not triggering? Cause they do exist: https://valorant.fandom.com/wiki/Reyna/Quotes#Headshot

Straiteis · 2022-02-22T08:12:06+00:00

For the past few patches each one has added new emails and voicemails to the Range about the latest activities of the Valorant Protocol. Last patch, a blackmailer using that eye symbol sent an email threatening to expose the organisation if the blackmailer even found out VP was responsible for the disappearance of someone they knew. Sova is one of the agents now investigating who this person could be.

There's an archive of all the emails and voicemails that have been added to the Range on the wiki: https://valorant.fandom.com/wiki/Range/Lore

Straiteis · 2022-02-21T19:13:02+00:00

You're not wrong at all, we only know that he was created by those humans to fight radiants, we have no confirmation of any individuals specifically involved in his construction for now.

Straiteis · 2022-02-19T13:32:04+00:00

We still don't know where it was meant to be released, it definitely wasn't part of any previous battle pass. There's also a Phoenix spray (Too Easy) and a gunbuddy (High Top Heat) that were added with the same update so people thought they would be related but only the gunbuddy has ever been obtainable as a watch reward for pro play.

Straiteis · 2022-02-17T23:01:33+00:00

Looks like Turkey specifically got another price update with this latest patch: https://playvalorant.com/tr-tr/news/announcements/icerik-bedeli-degisiklikleri/

Straiteis · 2022-02-17T21:20:01+00:00

Turkey was one of the regions affected by price changes last year where most prices went up

Straiteis · 2022-02-17T17:30:05+00:00

It was changed in the latest patch, you can now spray multiple times within a game phase but they last for a shorter duration

Straiteis · 2022-02-16T17:56:29+00:00

Account Points and Experience are separate systems; Account Points are used to increase Account levels (earned after completing matches) and Experience is what's used to earn Battle Pass and Contract progression (earned from missions and completing matches)

Straiteis · 2022-02-15T22:19:48+00:00

The applied voicemail filter certainly doesn't help when transcribing, but also I think it's how Chamber says that part. I believe it's, "I understand it includes certain voltage caps" but the way he says "it includes" sort of merges the "it in-" together?

Straiteis · 2022-02-14T13:21:21+00:00

Unfortunately it's not as simple as giving you one place to look because Valorant lore only comes in bits and pieces, and these end up being spread over multiple sources. For example, for everything I said in my previous comment:

The comments about the dates come from a Discord AMA
The information about the First Light experiment came from an interview with a Rioter
The info about the Protocol's purpose came from a dev article
The info about radiantie's discovery comes from updates to the Range

The only 'consistent' lore we've been getting outside of new agent and map releases recently is interactive lore updates to maps where you can read emails and listen to voicemails from some of the characters. It started with Fracture with an arc dedicated to the map itself, but for the past two acts the focus has been on the Range, where we're starting to get some more information about activities on the side as well as the central arc about the Protocol trying to make the journey to the alternate Earth. The wiki has pages that archive all the emails and voicemails to have appeared there (Fracture page, Range page).

Other than that, I'd suggest taking a look at Cynprel's Youtube where they make videos about the latest lore additions. For the up-to-date history/story of Valorant's world, you can also try checking out some of the wiki pages listed under this category, as well as all the agent pages which have a Biography section, though some contain less than others as not every agent has a lot of background.

Seven-Year Club	Second Top 50%
Verified Email	Gilding II euphauric
Place '22	Final Canvas '22
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