Dragon Age: Inquisition introduced an advisory team to help guide the Inquisitor both on and off the battlefield in the fight against Corypheus. With Thedas in chaos on account of the mage/templar war, the explosion at the Temple of Sacred Ashes and the giant hole in the sky, the player had to interact and negotiate with people across Thedas. The woman behind the Inquisitor who put everything she had into making the organization look flawless was Josephine Montilyet.

The eldest daughter of the noble Montilyets of Antiva, Josephine worked for years as the chief ambassador between Antiva and Orlais, which gave her the skillset needed to impress and charm just about anyone into doing her bidding. Without her behind the scenes ensuring every detail of the Inquisition's presentation was absolutely perfect, there's a strong possibility the Inquisition would have failed to gather the strength and backing it required during its rise to power. Fortunately, Josephine would have never allowed that to happen, and the Inquisitor was more than lucky to have her on their side.

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Prior to the Blessed Age, the Montilyet family was one of the major naval powers in Antiva. They made their fortune on the seas, which also meant the incursion of numerous rivalries with the pirates who sought their cargo. The Montilyets were connected to just about everyone, especially in Orlais, but a failed marriage with the Du Paraquette family led to a vendetta that would eventually drag both families toward their ruin. The feud resulted in the Montilyet's exile from Orlais, which heavily impacted their trade business and fortune.

During the Inquisition, Josephine sought the Inquisitor's aid in the restoration of her family's landed trader status when assassins from the House of Repose struck out in answer to a 109- year-old contract and murdered Josephine's messengers. The Du Paraquettes, who had fallen from noble favor sixty-years earlier, had taken out a contract after their feud with the Montilyets, instructing anyone attempting to restore the family's trade status in Orlais be destroyed.

Though Leliana believed the problem could be solved by invading the House of Repose and destroying the contract with her network of assassins and spies, Josephine wanted to take a more diplomatic approach to the situation. She believed restoring the Du Paraquettes to nobility would be enough to convince the remaining family members to nullify the contract with the House of Repose and allow her to resume her efforts to rebuild the Montilyet's trade business. The choice was left for the Inquisitor to make the next time the player visited the War Table, with options to follow either Leliana's course of assassination and destruction or Josephine's and begin the process of raising the Du Paraquettes status.

She was a romance option for either a male or female Inquisitor. However, in the early days before the romance was cemented, Leliana attempted to persuade the player away from her, suggesting that she was innocent in love and likely to be hurt. If the player continued to pursue the relationship, eventually Josephine received word that her parents arranged a marriage for her to Lord Adorno Ciel Otranto from Antiva. Josephine asked to put their relationship temporarily on hold while she sought a way out of the marriage contract, but she also notes that one way to nullify it would be the Inquisitor challenging the lord to a duel and winning.

The player can go behind Josephine's back and arrange to duel Lord Otranto, but Josephine catches wind of it and arrives in the middle of it to scold the Inquisitor for risking everything they've built with the Inquisition, not to mention their life. This allowed the player to either break off their relationship or confess that they chose the duel because they were in love with Josephine. Hearing this, Josephine kisses the Inquisitor rather passionately, which, in turn, prompts Lord Otranto to withdraw his family's betrothal because he doesn't wish to stand in the way of true love.

During Trespasser, regardless of whether the Inquisitor romanced her or not, Josephine took the player to the opera, and they shared an experience she was truly surprised the player had never before endured. After the Inquisition, she returned to Antiva, and if her family's trade status in Orlais was restored, she worked hard to rebuild their fortunes.

If the Inquisitor romances neither Josephine nor Blackwall, the two share an open infatuation, but they both know they can never act on their love because they are from different stations in the social scape. They flirt and secretly share love tokens, but their relationship is never consummated. By the time the Trespasser DLC rolls around, Blackwall confesses that they both knew it would never come to anything, suggesting they've moved on.

When one looks behind the scenes, at the War Table missions and the negotiations made by Josephine on behalf of the Inquisition, it's plain to see that without her careful consideration, charm and diplomacy, the restoration of the Inquisition to power in a time it was greatly needed would have failed. With Dragon Age 4 heading to the Tevinter Imperium, the next hero in the story might face Josephine Montilyet, perhaps seeking passage on one of the ships in her mighty trade fleet.

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