Haven. Split. Bind. Breeze. Icebox.

What do these five maps have in common? Why do Ascent and Fracture get left out?

It's simple. The wires.

On every bombsite, on every map listed, there are wires. Not just any wires, you see, but special wires. Wires that decided they needed to stand out, both figuratively and literally. Dark red turned to bright red, dark blue turned to light blue. Black stayed black, but hey, we don't judge.

But what could this possibly mean?

After minutes hours of research by a dedicated team of iron 3 players such as myself, we solved the puzzle.

We discovered that the answer may not lie in that group of maps after all.

It lies in those we have excluded.

You see, my dear reader, when you rearrange some of the humble letters of the words "Ascent" and "Fracture", you can get the magic six letter word:

ARCANE

Does this confirm an ARCANE x VALORANT crossover?!?!? No. But, as the honorable Abe Lincoln once said, "A correlation need not always mean causation, but it probably is"

Could we see VALORANT agents in the next season of ARCANE? Could JINX be our next duelist? I prefer not to speculate, so it is up to you to draw conclusions from this irrefutable evidence.