This name refers to several real and fictional organizations:
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The Guild of Assassins is located in a light, airy series of buildings opposite the Guild of Fools and Joculators, which is often mistaken for it, being a far more sinister building.
Pupils who do not intend to become Assassins are called "Oppidans", from the Latatian for "town." Guild graduates can be expected to be at home in any company, and to be able to play at least one musical instrument.
The rules of Assassination are so utterly formalised and strict that anyone with a strategic mind, a decent budget, and a firm knowledge of their code can usually avoid death at their hands, as Sam Vimes has proved many times.
The Assassins' Guild as described in the books (especially Pyramids and the aforementioned diary) is a parody of English public schools, especially as they are portrayed in fiction.
Guild graduates can be expected to be at home in any company, and to be able to play at least one musical instrument.
Note: "Officially unlisted" means that, while the Guild has priced these people as "clients", it now refuses to accept contracts on them, on the grounds that their deaths would destabilise the city, endangering the Guild itself.
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