Sage

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**Sage** (*Chinese*: 聖祈; pinyin: *Shèngqí*; codename **Thorne**) is an Agent in *VALORANT*.

## Profile

### Personality

— Sage (Match Start)

Described as a stronghold, Sage is an agent who always looks out for her teammates and offers help whenever she can. She has fully embraced her powers which give her control of life, and wishes to use them to keep her team alive for as long as possible. Calmer and more collected than some of her more energetic allies, Sage always imparts encouraging words to rally the team up and guide them to victory.

### Appearance

Sage is a fair skinned, apparently tall woman with very long black hair that reaches her knees. Her inner clothing is black, and her outer, looser clothing is white. She also wears green, as a collar, belt and design on her outer clothing. For accessories, she wears her green orbs around her lower body and smaller ones as earrings.

## Abilities

### Basic

C – Barrier Orb
Berkas:Barrier Orb.png
EQUIP a barrier orb. FIRE places a wall that fortifies after a few seconds. ALT FIRE rotates the targeter.

**Uses:** 1
**Cost:** 400
**Duration:**  40 s
**Health:** Health 400 HP, 800 HP when fortified

Q – Slow Orb
Berkas:Slow Orb.png
EQUIP a slowing orb. FIRE to throw a slowing orb forward that detonates upon landing, creating a lingering field that slows players caught inside of it.

**Uses:** 2
**Cost:** 200
**Duration:**  7 s
**Debuff:** Debuff 50% Slow

### Signature

E – Healing Orb
Berkas:Healing Orb.png
EQUIP a healing orb. FIRE with your crosshairs over a damaged ally to activate a heal-over-time on them. ALT FIRE while Sage is damaged to activate a self heal-over-time.

**Uses:** 1
**Cost:**Free
**Duration:**  5 s (Ally), 10 s (Self-cast)
**Cooldown:**  45 s
**Healing:** Healing 60 HP

### Ultimate

X – Resurrection
Berkas:Resurrection.png
EQUIP a resurrection ability. FIRE with your crosshairs placed over a dead ally to begin resurrecting them. After a brief channel, the ally will be brought back to life with full health.

**Cost:**♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 8 points

## Update History

**v3.03**
* Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb
	+ Fixed Barrier Orb being destroyed by Berkas:Boom Bot.png Boom Bot, Berkas:Owl Drone.png Owl Drone, or Berkas:Fakeout.png Fakeout if they are placed in a way that overlapped a segment of the barrier wall

**v3.01**

* Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb
	+ Can no longer be placed on some projectiles while they’re in the air or deployed on the ground

**v3.0**

* Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb
	+ Cost increased 300 >>> 400
	+ Agents blocked by Barrier Orb when resurrected now break the wall to ensure they don’t get pushed inside map geo
* Berkas:Slow Orb.png Slow Orb
	+ Cost increased 100 >>> 200
* Berkas:Resurrection.png Resurrection
	+ Ultimate points required increased 7 >>> 8

**v2.07**

* Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb
	+ Fixed a bug where placing Killjoy’s Berkas:Turret.png Turret next to Barrier Orb would sometimes break it

**v2.06**

* Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb
	+ Fixed issue where Cypher’s Berkas:Spycam.png Spycam broke Barrier Orb when placed close to it

**v2.03**

* Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb
	+ Killjoy’s Berkas:Lockdown.png Lockdown can no longer be placed inside Barrier Orb in some instances
		- If Barrier Orb is placed on top of Killjoy’s ult, the section of the wall covering the ult will now be destroyed

**v2.02**

* Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb
	+ Fixed issue where the Spike could be planted on Barrier Orb on the sites on Icebox

**v2.0**

* Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb
	+ Fixed an issue where Omen could plant the Spike while elevated on Barrier Orb

**v1.14**

* Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb
	+ Can no longer be cast in Buy Phase
	+ Once fortified, Barrier no longer loses health over time. It now only starts to deteriorate a few seconds before it expires.

**v1.11**

* Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb
	+ Sage wall segments no longer break if a player dies on top of them

**v1.07**

* Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb
	+ Cost reduced 400 >>> 300
	+ Wall now forms at 400 HP, then after a 3 second delay the wall becomes fortified to 800 HP
	+ Duration increased 30 >>> 40 seconds
		- *This change was undocumented and is estimated to have appeared during this patch*
* Berkas:Slow Orb.png Slow Orb
	+ Size reduced 30%
* Berkas:Healing Orb.png Healing Orb
	+ Heal reduced from 100 over 5 seconds >>> 60 over 5 seconds
	+ Self heal reduced from 100 over 5 seconds >>> 60 over 10 seconds

**v1.01**

* Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb
	+ Cast range reduced 20 >>> 10 meters

**v1.0**

* Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb
	+ Segment health reduced 1000 >>> 800
	+ Duration reduced 40 >>> 30 seconds
* Berkas:Healing Orb.png Healing Orb
	+ Cooldown increased 35 >>> 45 seconds

**v0.50**

* Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb
	+ Cost increased 300 >>> 400 credits
* Berkas:Slow Orb.png Slow Orb
	+ Zone duration decreased 9 >>> 7 seconds
	+ Slowing amount decreased 65% >>> 50%

**v0.49**

* Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb
	+ Will only spawn a chunk of the barrier if it is supported by the ground
		- This can mean it will sometimes only spawn 2 barrier chunks
	+ Can no longer be placed on "small" pieces of geometry, it must be placed on the ground or on top of boxes

**v0.47+**

* Berkas:Slow Orb.png Slow Orb
	+ Now also slows the air speed of players in the zone.
	+ Players can now walk through the Slow Orb without making noise.

## Gallery

Sage (Full).pngSage (Half).pngIn-game iconEarly sage.pngEarly SageFirstLook SageHealConcept.jpgConcept ArtVersus Omen Sage Card.pngPlayer card featuring Sage
## Trivia

* Sage's ability orbs appear to be the same orbs she wears on her belt.

**Development**

* An old game file from a very early stage in development shows the names of some of the agents at the time. One of the agents, 'Mirai Kimura', had the call sign 'Thorne', which would end up becoming Sage's codename within *VALORANT*'s files.
	+ Because this comes from a very early stage in development, it is likely that Mirai Kimura and Sage are completely different **characters**, even if they have links between their codenames/call signs or abilities, as evidenced by other agents from this stage also sharing call signs with current agents' code names despite appearing to have different nationalities and genders from each other.

**Lore**

* Sage's orbs are actual radianite, as shown by her contract's chapter 2, level 1 unlock "Radianite orb buddy."
* Despite the VALORANT Protocol having Brimstone and Viper as its first two members, with the former being the organization's leader, Sage holds a position that puts her as the VP's second-in-command.
	+ Berkas:BrimstoneAllySageMatchStart.mp3 *"Sage, if I die out there, you're in charge. Someone has to look after these knuckleheads."*
	+ Berkas:SageAllyBrimstoneRoundStart.mp3 *"Remember Brimstone, if anything happens to you, I'll take the lead."*
* Sage oversaw communications with Phoenix when the latter was sent to Venice, Italy to stop a mirror Jett from planting a spike. However, Phoenix was unsuccessful with this endeavor, with the spike's detonation resulting in part of the city to float suspended in the air.
* Sage was the one who recruited Skye into VALORANT, as shown in the latter's reveal trailer.

**Relations**

* Sage and Viper have crossed paths before, though their collaboration did not go as planned, with Sage apparently failing at her role in their efforts.
	+ Berkas:ViperAllySageMatchStart.mp3 *"Sage, you're the only one who can keep us alive. Don't fail us now like you failed me then."*
	+ Viper still holds some resentment towards Sage for what happened, though Sage still wants to help her where she can.
		- Berkas:ViperEnemySageLastKill.mp3 *"That's payback, Sage!"*
		- Berkas:SageAllyViperChat.mp3 *"Viper, have you thought about my offer? You don't have to-"*
			* Berkas:ViperAllySageChat.mp3 *"Never, **ever**, assume you can help me! You can't help me, you can't help them!"*
* Sage and Omen have a good, solid "connection."

## References

1. ↑ Barrier Orb duration stealth revert
2. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/gau1i1/several\_storyrelated\_texts\_were\_found\_in\_the\_game/
3. ↑ VALORANT - DUELISTS Cinematic.
4. ↑ VALORANT - Skye reveal trailer.
5. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/nrjner/valorant\_narrative\_team\_ama\_on\_lore\_11am\_pt12pm\_pt/h0h2014/?context=3