Sortiga is a Piandan town in the Antaran Empire in Betrayal in Antara. It is visited in Chapters 1, 2, and 6.
Geography
Sortiga is west of Kyree Colony, south of Ligano, and southeast of Panizo. A coastal town, it is bounded by cliffs to the west, the sea to the south, and a forest to the north. On the beach south of town, a buried cache holds three Wedding Rings.
A coach runs from Sortiga to Balmestri for 300 burlas, with the coachman warning the party that the route crosses Montari territory.
Commerce
- Inn: Black Sheep Inn
- Shop: Gloria's Gardens
Residents
- Healer Korellyn can be found just north of town in Chapters 1 and 2.
- A well-dressed older gentleman setting up a wedding party complains about his unhappy daughter's "nerves," believing that marriage to his businessman friend and "the biggest wedding banquet this side of the Waste" should delight any young woman. However, the priest can't arrive from Ligano with all the Montari blocking the road, and the groom's younger brother, who "hasn't the sense to stuff a goose," has lost the wedding rings. If the party returns to the house after clearing the road from Sortiga to Ligano, the man gives them an 85% Pearl in thanks. If they give him the Wedding Rings instead of taking them to Benje, he thanks them and Benje can no longer be visited.
- A beefy, pale man with muttonschop whiskers, a rude manner, and multiple locks and bolts on his door boasts about being "one of the most important businessmen in Sortiga." He views his engagement to Cherise as a business alliance with her father, providing him with the contacts and products he needs to build his business: "What could any girl want more than to see her husband succeed?" He laughs at William's suggestion of love and affection, noting that his foolish, lovestruck kid brother, Benje, lost the wedding rings; but he can buy new ones at cost if necessary, so the wedding will go forward anyway.
- Benje, despondent and exhausted, explains that he lost the three rings for his eldest brother's wedding with the beautiful, wonderful Cherise. He hid them near the coast, then went to dig them back up but couldn't find the spot. If they dig up the Wedding Rings and give them to Benje, he gives them a copy of Acute Senses and Perception in gratitude and muses that if he's going to do something about Cherise's marriage, he needs to do it soon.
- Hearing sobs, the party knocks on a door and is answered by a young woman with hazel eyes free of tears who turns the party away, claiming to be taking care of a sick friend. If the party returns after giving Benje the wedding rings and telling the priest at the Temple of Henne south of Ligano that they have cleared the road to Sortiga, they learn from the delighted woman that the priest married Cherise and Benje in secret and they have eloped. She gives the party a reward for helping her friend.
Trivia
- The party learns what became of Cherise's impending wedding when they visit Friole later on.