5.04 Lore updates: Search for Varun Batra begins + Fade name reveal

Posted by Steve

Wednesday, August 24, 2022 11:19 AM

5.04 brings just one voicemail this time from Astra as Valorant looks to track down Alpha Varun Batra. REALM did not appear to take kindly to other people showing an interest in their own business, but to Astra, Batra is too important for discovering what Omega is up to for the Protocol to give up on. You can listen to the voicemail here.

Astra voicemail:

Fade says you spoke to REALM. So this guy's a man on the run, a thief, huh. The universe never makes it easy. And now these REALM people wanna shut you out, huh?! "Stay out of our business", they said that, as if they gonna tell you what to do.

I like making friends, but not this time! We gotta find this fugitive before they do. We wanna know what Legion is up to, he's the key!

The latest email doesn't involve Brimstone at all for a change, instead showing the response one of Fade's former colleagues from REALM gave her about the inquiry into Batra. He reveals Batra is now a fugitive but echoes the same message heard by Brimstone from REALM about staying out of their internal affairs. Also, Fade's name is revealed here to be Hazal Eyletmez.

Fade-Greaves email

The bulletin board update removed the bottom row of images to make way for a large map of South/South-East Asia, with the symbol that's suspected to have something to do with REALM/Batra also being pinned to the west Indian coast. Given what we've seen from the email and voicemail, looks like we're going to be getting another manhunt story for recruiting a new agent into the Protocol over this next act.

5.04 Bulletin board

EDIT: As mentioned by u/NotToDisturb, we got the standard agent teaser player card in the battle pass called "Rising Tide", with multiple references to water that add to the implications behind Varun's name. The pass also has some Omega references to their VAL-CON and the events involving the Legion agents in Lisbon that we first heard about from the tannoy announcements at Pearl's Garden of Heroes.

Rising Tide, VAL-CON, and Garden of Heroes player cards

References

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/ww1t21/504_lore_updates_search_for_varun_batra_begins/
  • https://reddit.com/ww1t21

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