Aurelio Diaz is an agent for the Strategic Homeland Division. He is a protagonist in Tom Clancy's The Division: Broken Dawn.
Originally from Washington, D.C., Diaz was activated as part of the SHD's Second Wave and voluntarily redeployed to New York City shortly thereafter. Five months later, he left to follow suspected Rogue Agent Ike Ronson in his pursuit of April Kelleher, which led him to uncover the existence of broad-spectrum antivirals and the machinations of Black Tusk.
Biography[]
Born in Washington, D.C. to Guatemalan immigrants, Aurelio Diaz worked as a school gym teacher near the Capitol where he lived with his wife, Graciela, and two young children, Amelia and Ivan. In the wake of the Green Poison outbreak on Black Friday, Graciela was among millions who died from the illness; Diaz later suspected she had been infected due to her job at a bank, which involved regularly handling paper money.
Following the near-total decimation or desertion of The Division's First Wave in New York City, Diaz was activated as part of The Division's Second Wave and left the comparatively stable D.C. to help authorities in New York, leaving Amelia and Ivan in the care of the Joint Task Force. The siblings would later be sent to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel settlement.
Only days after arriving in Manhattan, one of Diaz's first missions was helping to establish a secure passage to the N.Y.C. Base of Operations for hostages rescued from rioters at Madison Square Garden - including Dr. Jessica Kandel, who would prove instrumental in deciphering the Green Poison virus and developing a possible cure. Diaz remained in New York for the next four months, assisting the JTF in operations against local gangs alongside his fellow agents.
Tom Clancy’s The Division: Broken Dawn[]
In the spring, Diaz learned that his children had gone missing after a flood wiped out their settlement. The agent made immediate plans to return to D.C., but was persuaded by Lt. Hendricks to aid in one final JTF operation at City Hall.
During the raid, he received a distress signal sent by a fellow agent, Ike Ronson, from some nearby apartments. Inside, he found the bodies of fourteen civilians, who had been recently massacred by the Duane Park Family; Diaz deduced that Ronson abandoned the civilians to their deaths, making him a rogue agent, although ISAC strangely neglected to mark him as such. He followed Ronson's signal out of Manhattan, towards New Jersey.
Diaz eventually tracked Ronson to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he discovered Ronson had partnered with civilian April Kelleher on her journey towards the University of Michigan. Unwilling to risk Kelleher's safety in a direct confrontation, Diaz feigned ignorance and made camp with the pair, where Kelleher told the agents about her late husband's work involving broad-spectrum antivirals. However, Ronson was not deceived - while Kelleher slept, he revealed that he knew Diaz had followed him, and invited the man to shoot him if Diaz truly believed he had gone rogue.
The two agents accompanied Kelleher to the University of Michigan, where they met Dr. Kavita Chandrasekhar and learned the antivirals had already been sent to D.C. by order of the newly-inaugurated President, Andrew Ellis. Diaz received an emergency call from Hendricks, informing him that Ike Ronson was working with a liaison named Mantis to launch an impending raid on the university's lab facilities. Diaz subdued Ronson, took his Smart Watch, and revealed Ronson's betrayal to Kelleher and Chandrasekhar. Chandrasekhar left to evacuate her staff and Diaz and Kelleher fled as Black Tusk forces raided the lab, leaving Ronson bound to a chair; during their escape, he realized the SHD Network had gone offline.
Although Kelleher initially planned to return to New York, Diaz convinced her to go to Washington, D.C. and inform the JTF about Black Tusk. In Cleveland, Ohio, the two parted ways--Diaz left for New London to investigate Black Tusk further, while Kelleher headed to D.C. Before leaving, Diaz asked Kelleher to check on Amelia and Ivan when she arrived, to which she agreed.
She later fulfilled her promise by rescuing Amelia, Ivan, and several other children from the Castle Settlement during an attack by the True Sons. She reassured the siblings that their father was indeed alive, and would return for them.
Biography[]
Above all, Aurelio Diaz is wholly committed to the Strategic Homeland Division and its mission, which demanded its agents leave behind their civilian lives to serve the common good in times of great need. When Directive 51 was activated, he did not hesitate to leave for New York City to lend much-needed aid, even if it meant abandoning his two young children shortly after the death of his wife. Although he yearns to reunite with them, his duties as a Division agent repeatedly pull him away - be it helping the JTF, hunting rogue agents, or investigating potential threats like Black Tusk.
This devotion also leads to righteous indignation towards rogue agents like Ike Ronson, who fail to uphold The Division's ideals. It was partly the deaths of several children that drove Diaz to hunt down Ronson with such determination, as they reminded him of his own son and daughter. However, he begis to doubt his assessment of Ronson upon learning of the agent's good deeds in his trek across America, and ultimately spares the rogue's life after subduing him, though he acknowledges many lives could have been saved if he had killed Ronson outright.
Equipment[]
- In Tom Clancy's The Division: Broken Dawn, Diaz carries a G36 and an unspecified sidearm.