Varnasse

Overhead map of Varnasse. Yellow: Inn. Green: Shop. Blue/C: Naomi at the Conservatory. JH: Joel and Honey. W: pale woman. S: Smith's Forgery. N: nobody home. B: Botanist. E: Empty House. X: nudberry planting sites.

Varnasse is a Ticoran village in the Antaran Empire in Betrayal in Antara. It is visited in Chapters 2, 4, and 6.

Geography

Varnasse is on the road south of the Imperial bridges to Antara and Korus Landing. Eastward, the road forks further east to Ticoro or south to Melay.

Commerce

• Inn: Covered Bridge Inn
• Shop: The Armory

Residents

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  The smith of Smith's Forgery.

  

  An injured botanist.

  

  Nudberry planting sites east of Varnasse.

  Joel and Honey, a couple just returned from their second honeymoon in Isten, recommends the inn's terrific breakfast, the good shopping, and Academy of Broken Hearts at the amphitheater, starring Madame Maria Liana. Honey, a big fan, makes much of Liana's other roles.

• A pale woman at the Mason's Guild worries that her husband Jaimie has been killed working on the bridge. The local council has not responded to the masons' complaints about not receving their pay for the bridge work, and the workers have been talking about levying their own toll out of frustration. If the party visits her in Chapter 2 and then speaks to the guildmaster in Ticoro in Chapter 3, they can move things along.

• The conservatory is locked until after the Spring Festival. In Chapter 4, its keeper, Naomi, sends the party on a quest to Elona, agreeing to teach Aren Cordelaine some magic afterwards.

• In Chapter 4, Smith's Forgery is open (the spelling is intentional). The smith can increase the party's Repair stat by +12 for 80 burlas.

• A house where nobody answers the party's knock.

• In Chapter 4, a botanist with a broken leg explains that she was accidentally pushed out of the road by some marching Imperial soldiers and can't go back out with the injury to replant her nudberry seedlings. Aren offers to help. The party can find the planting sites, three small holes in the ground, north of the road leading east out of Varnasse. If they return to the botanist, she gives them a +5 Dervish Disk she found buried at one of her planting sites.

• An Empty House holds +2 Senwater, a +12 Armorer's Hammer, +4 Bread, and +28 burlas.

Trivia

• The Imperial bridge north of Varnasse, as the party learns if they visit it, was destroyed by a trader's son who came into his magic suddenly, causing the water to go wild and save him when a horse pitched him into the river.
• The party cannot go north of the first Imperial bridge in Chapter 2.
• The miner of Quigley Castle in Aliero recounts several digs in the region, including finding phosphorus in Varnasse.
• In Chapter 4, a bug causes an empty dialog box when clicking on the pale woman's house for an update on the mason's strike.
• In Chapter 7, Jhana tells the party that Durst has sent for a mage in Varnasse to help manage the wildfires in the forest nearby, but is uncertain as to whether the mage will arrive in time to help.