House of Repose

The House of Repose, also known as the Assassins' League, is an Orlesian assassins guild working exclusively for the Orlesian nobility.

Background
Little is known of the League, other than it has been operating in Orlais since at least the Blessed Age. To the House of Repose, a contract means everything, and voiding one is not something they'd consider.

Involvement
In 8:35 Blessed, an Orlesian noble family of Du Paraquettes, the contemporary rivals of the Antivan merchant family of Montilyets, hired the House of Repose in order do drive out their rivals out of Val Royeaux and Orlais. The League assassins succeeded, as the Montilyets did not set foot back in Orlais until 9:41 Dragon, when Josephine Montilyet, the family heir and Inquisition ambassador, attempted to bring her family back.

The assassins have intercepted Josephine's couriers, killed them, and destroyed the documents Josephine gave them to restart her family's presence in the Empire. Whilst investigating the killers, Josephine learns of and Orlesian noble by the name of Comte Boisvert who has information for her.

However, the Comte request that the Inquisitor attends their meeting with him as a move in the Game. Upon arriving at the Boisvert Mansion, it quickly becomes clear that the man they have their meeting with is not the Comte, but a House of Repose assassin impersonating him. He explains that the real Comte did learn surprisingly much of the secretive League, and that he has not hurt him, but rather locked him in his own wardrobe. He goes on to explain that he made an exception for Josephine because of the unusual nature of the contract, as it was signed over a 100 years earlier by a noble family who's noble no longer.

The assassin asked the Inquisitor to leave their meeting without shedding blood, and the Inquisitor agreed.

The assassin will ask the Inquisitor to leave their meeting without shedding blood, but the Inquisitor wasn't willing to let him live. The assassin will enter subterfuge, and reappear behind the Inquisitor next to two other assassins and has to be killed.

After the meeting Josephine will search the room and will discover the real Comte locked in the wardrobe, just like the assassin said he was.

Back at Skyhold, Josephine hatches a plan that would let her utilise a loophole: she will return the Du Paraquette's status as nobility through a series of complicated operations, and then get them to withdraw the contract on her family. However, Leliana has a more straightforward plan: break into the League's headquarters and steal the contract.

However the League is dealt with, they leave Josephine and the Inquisition alone.