Riot Games celebrates launch of new Scottish Valorant agent with animated Clove mural in Edinburgh, Isla Campbell also talks about voicing the new agent
Dom Sacco, Senior Editor
Last Updated: 17/06/2025
Riot Games has today unveiled a Clove mural in Edinburgh to celebrate the launch of Valorant’s 25th agent: Clove.
The street mural has been placed alongside other Scottish contemporary and street art pieces at outdoor exhibition space, Quality Yard, located in the heart of Leith’s Old Town.
Edinburgh locals will be in with a chance to claim exclusive goodies for visiting the mural in person.
Among Edinburgh’s alleys, butterflies speak of a shadowed figure, dancing through the darkness. Let curiosity guide you, but tread lightly 🦋
— VALORANT // UK, IE & Nordics (@VALORANTukn) April 2, 2024
Rioters, esports teams, and Valorant fans all gathered for the mural’s reveal and members of the public are invited to visit the installation themselves for a limited time, between April 3rd and 30th 2024.
The news comes one week after Riot Games revealed Valorant’s first non-binary agent, Scottish character Clove.
The Edinburgh Eclipse Valorant Team were also invited to see the Clove mural ahead of the announcement this morning.
HERES MY BIG NEWS!! Edinburgh Eclipse Valorant Team was invited to see the mural before the announcement! We went yesterday morn and last night, and bumped into a certain someone (@ilerpiler) https://t.co/EB0MAxk77h pic.twitter.com/wWT4M5HAX7
— KT 🍉 (@ktparnizzle) April 3, 2024
Alex Fung, President of the Eclipse Esports Society at the University of Edinburgh, said: “Riot was kind enough to give the players on our Valorant team early access to play Clove ahead of their release.
“A number of players on our Valorant teams are non-binary or LGBTQIA+, so it feels extra special to see ourselves represented on multiple levels in the game that we love.”
View more images of the Clove mural on the Esports News UK Instagram page here:
Clove is the sixth controller to be added to Valorant’s roster, but unlike other controllers, Clove’s unique abilities allow for a more aggressive playstyle. As well as manipulating the battlefield and hindering enemy sightlines, Clove’s ultimate ability allows them to self-revive, meaning that death is just an opportunity for them.
The mural, completed by local street artist, Elph, captures these themes of death and rebirth across four large canvases in the heart of Edinburgh’s creative district, Leith. The artwork is accompanied by cinematic animated projections, to give the piece an ethereal presence at night.
Those that visit and share photos of themselves at the mural with @VALORANTukn on X (Twitter) or @VALORANTukie (Instagram) will be in with a chance to win a special Clove gift bundle.
Clove voice actor Isla Campbell on voicing the new agent
Isla Campbell, the voice over artist behind Clove, spoke about their experience bringing the agent to life.
“I graduated university this summer and jumped straight into this,” Isla said. “This is my second ever acting job and first ever voice acting job. I couldn’t have asked for a better role or a better team. It has just been amazing.
weehoo, absolutely overjoyed I can finally announce that I am the voice of Clove, @valorant ’s newest wee troublemaker! :3 🦋✨✨ pic.twitter.com/U6hlIt1Kaq
— Isla Campbell 🦋 (@ilerpiler) March 26, 2024
“Voicing Clove and working with Riot has just been the best experience. Getting to be unapologetically and authentically Scottish, not a stereotype, not overplayed, is so important and such a privilege that people like my friends who play Valorant will hear Clove’s voice and go, “hold on that’s actually how I speak.
“Scottish accents are a common stereotype in the media so getting to speak in my voice while putting my own little stamp on it makes the character so much more authentic, which is just great.
“Being a non-binary person voicing a non-binary character is just the biggest privilege because I know how important this representation is in a wider sense but also for the people who play the game and can identify with the character.”
Isla Campbell
“I know that it’s going to make a lot of people feel seen, and that’s just an amazing feeling. I hope everyone enjoys meeting Valorant’s new little Scottish troublemaker!”
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Dom Sacco, Senior Editor
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He has almost two decades of experience in journalism, and left Esports News UK in June 2025. As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late '80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He also previously worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation.
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