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** The ''[[Discworld|Assassins' Guild of Ankh-Morpork]]'' has occasional "scholarship students". While most of the students from the Guild are nobility sent for the first-class education, who rarely actually become assassins The "scholarship students" got free education for outstanding work in the field of study - in this case, murder. Generally, they work for the Patrician. The first one we meet is Arthur from ''[[Discworld/Pyramids|Pyramids]]'' (who received his scholarship thanks to a famous assassin father), but the concept was really established, named, and codified with {{spoiler|Inigo Skimmer}} from ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]''. The scholarship boys appear again in the Moist von Lipwig books with Cranberry from ''[[Discworld/Making Money|Making Money]]''.

** Mr. Teatime from ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'' was something similar. All guilds in Ankh-Morpork will occasionally take in orphans, who receive free training from the guild. Jeremy Clockson from ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'' is an example from a different guild, in this case the clockmakers.

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' with the Baron's "school" of noble apprentices/hostages stepped on this trope, shuffled a little, then [[Subverted Trope|overturned it]] and walked on. Twice in a row. (Agatha and Gil both appeared to be charity cases during their time there. The first turns out to be arguably the most powerful Spark in Europa and The Heterodyne; the second turns out to be the other main contender for most powerful Spark, ''and secretly the Baron's heir''.)