Range/Lore

Range lore elements archives
Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9
This article links to all of the lore elements that have been seen on the Range after they were first added in 3.09.
These have mostly been found within an office found in the basement under the main hall belonging to VALORANT Protocol leader , and around the main hall, which itself has a small office belonging to . Before 3.09, these listed rooms had either been barricaded or walled off. 
A downloadable folder containing all the audio files used on this page and its subpages can be found here.
==Current episode: Episode 9==
:Main article: Range/Lore/EP9
==Previous episodes==
===Episode 3===
:Article for archived assets: Range/Lore/EP3
Episode 3's events include:
*VALORANT's investigations into the ruins of Everett-Linde as they attempt to create their own Alpha-Omega teleporter to be able to take the fight to Omega.
*Recruitment of Chamber into the Protocol and his immediate involvements with the Omega Project.
===Episode 4===
:Article for archived assets: Range/Lore/EP4
Episode 4's events include:
*VALORANT's continued work to reach Omega.
**Further progress is made on the teleporter thanks to Neon's recruitment as an agent.
**After the Protocol resolves its conflict with Fade, the portal becomes fully operational.
**Identification of Omega Lisbon and Rúben Pontes as subjects of interest.
*Yoru's continued investigations into S22 and his past.
*Astra taking temporary leave to deal with consequences of building the cross-world portal.
*The disruption of the Omega Project during the Protocol's dealings with a blackmailer.
**VALORANT tracks the blackmailer down and apprehends her in Istanbul. Interrogations then reveal the Protocol isn't responsible for the wrongdoings she is accusing them of.
**With no more reason to be enemies, VALORANT convinces the blackmailer to join them as an agent.
**Out-of-universe: Teasers for Fade's release.
*Viper's status report on her work with Reyna as the two attempt to save Reyna's sister, Lucia.
===Episode 5===
:Article for archived assets: Range/Lore/EP5
Episode 5's events include:
*The aftermath of the events in SHATTERED and the Protocol's continued scouting of Omega.
*The Protocol's search for Varun Batra, their subsequent conflict with REALM, and Batra's eventual recruitment.
**The Protocol learns that Legion has obtained a new power source and that it had hired Ω-Batra, an antiques expert, as its keeper.
**Investigations into α-Batra reveal him to be an ex-REALM operative now declared by the task force as a fugitive for stealing a priceless artifact from them. REALM refuses to give any information on the situation, prompting the Protocol to tail the REALM convoys hunting Batra down across southern Asia in order to get to him before REALM does.
**With further confirmation that the artifact in α-Batra's possession is the one the Protocol has been looking into, they finally rescue Batra in Delhi, recruiting him into VALORANT as "Harbor".
*Raze's temporary disappearance after she attends a concert in Berlin:
**Raze went missing after she attended a massive concert with Killjoy and Phoenix. She remembers that day being "wild" but not what happened next.
**She finds herself after these events stranded at Breeze and is able to contact Brimstone to request a pickup.
*The Protocol's investigations into the City of Flowers on Omega.
**Harbor's bracelet is though to be a key to a City of Flowers built by the Guardians. Astra hopes to discover where it is on Alpha but Harbor reveals he already had during his time at REALM and reports the city had been sabotaged and destroyed.
**Attention then turns to going to the city on Omega instead. Analysis reveals if Legion powers up the Omega Nexus with Alpha's destroyed, there could be catastrophic consequences on Alpha that endangers the lives of millions.
**The Protocol sends a small team of Astra, Harbor, and Skye to Omega to travel to its City of Flowers and establish a beacon there.
===Episode 6===
:Article for archived assets: Range/Lore/EP6
Episode 6's events include:
*Fade's haunting visions of the world falling apart.
*The Protocol's initial dealings with Kingdom Corporation's Project Landfall:
**Reports of weird things spotted near a Landfall facility in Los Angeles prompts Jett to go and investigate.
**Gekko is recruited into the Protocol not long after stealing a crew of creatures related to Landfall from the facility.
**Brimstone is contacted by an old K-SEC colleague who is looking for any leads on the stolen critters.
**During undercover work, Jett finds out about a Landfall cargo pickup happening in Norway.
*Gekko's recruitment into the Protocol and how he is seen settling in.
*Max Bot's increasingly unusual behavior.
===Episode 7===
:Article for archived assets: Range/Lore/EP7
Episode 7's events include:
*The Protocol brings Kingdom Corporation's Project Landfall to an end:
**After Deadlock is recruited, she warns the Protocol about Landfall's dealings with the Interverse and how it risked an invasion of radivores.
**Brimstone reaches out to his old K-SEC colleague in an attempt to convince them of the danger Landfall posed and that it needed to be shut down, but without being able to say too much he is only seen as a madman instead.
**VALORANT is left with no choice but to send a team to shut down Landfall themselves. The aftermath of this strike takes a heavy toll on Brimstone.
*The discovery of Iso and his recruitment into the Protocol:
**After Landfall is shut down, Protocol agents notice Landfall team leadership has gone missing and find an image from an intruder's jamming technology. This logo is recognized by Omen as having something to do with his past.
**The Protocol comes across Iso and arranges to recruit him in exchange for protection against his former employer, the Scions of Hourglass.
**Iso eventually reveals he had joined under false pretenses for the SoH but now wants to defect to the Protocol for good.
*To learn more about the Scions as the organization that had controlled Iso and holds some link to Omen's past, the Protocol organizes a raid on an Hourglass target.
===Episode 8===
:Article for archived assets: Range/Lore/EP8
Episode 8's events include:
*The Protocol enters conflict with the Scions of Hourglass:
**After a strike on an Hourglass base in Jakarta, Omen discovers his origins as an assassin for the SoH who had been defeated by Viper while she was still a scientist for Kingdom Corporation. The revelation that Viper had kept this secret drives Omen to take extended leave from the Protocol.
**After Omen leaves, he goes after an Hourglass journal located at an Edinburgh library where he also meets Clove. A handover of both the journal and Clove is eventually arranged with the Protocol, with Clove being recruited as an agent.
***Clove and Cypher work to decipher the journal, which leads them to uncover the location of the "Elder Grotto", a secret Hourglass base in Jan Mayen.
**Astra and Harbor travel to α-Lotus, the destroyed City of Flowers, and confirm the SoH's responsibility in its decimation.
**The Protocol carries out a strike on the Elder Grotto and secures the facility.
== Gallery ==
Brimstone Office 1.jpg|Brimstone's office
BS1 Office Photo 1.png|Brimstone as a child with a friend
BS1 Office Photo 2.png|Brimstone working as a firefighter
BS1 Office Photo 3.png|Brimstone working as a soldier
BS1 Office Photo 4.png|Brimstone with his motorcycle
BS1 Office Photo 5.png|Brimstone working as a Kingdom employee
Brimstone Office 5.jpg|Brimstone's record player
Brimstone Office 8.jpg|Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" next to the record player
Brimstone Office 7.png|A Baltimore license plate and a firefighter's logo
Range Cypher Office.png|Cypher's office
Range Cypher Laptop.png|Cypher's laptop screen
Cypher Range Leaning.png|Cypher outside his office
Cypher Range Standing.png|Cypher standing up after the player approaches him
Fade Range.png|Fade in front of the bulletin board
Brimstone Range.png|Brimstone in his office
Brimstone Range Bracer.png|Brimstone checking his bracer
Range Alarmbot.png|The Range's alarmbot lore guide
Range Alarmbot Hiding.png|The alarmbot's hiding place in Brim's office after it has guided the player across the map
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