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* The orphanage in the Elven Alienage in ''[[Dragon Age]]''. It's an example because it was overrun by demons that massacred everyone inside, leaving nothing but insane ghosts.
** Oh no, it's much worse than that. The people in the orphanage were massacred during [[The Purge]] ordered by [[Complete Monster|Arl Howe]]. The demons and ghosts only arrived ''after'' the horrific bloodshed and lingering feelings of pain and rage tore a hole in the Veil.
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' there is the Honorhall Orphanage, run by a terrible old woman called [[Non-Indicative Name| Grelod the ''kindKind'']]. She constantly gives speeches to the kids about how worthless they are and that they wont be adopted, ever. The kids themselves tell you that beatings are frequent and snooping around the building reveals that there is a cell with shackles on the wall. The kind normally seen in prisons. Grelod also starves the children by giving them only ''one'' meal a day in the afternoon. ''She even keeps them from being adopted''—she's that much of a power-hungry [[Control Freak]]. It's so bad, that one of the kids escaped and tried to recruit [[Murder, Inc.|The Dark Brotherhood]] to kill Grelod. {{spoiler|You can pretend to be from the Brotherhood and kill Grelod yourself. The children will ''cheer'' and praise the Dark Brotherhood. Needless to say, the Dark Brotherhood is not happy about this.}}
* In ''[[BioShock (series)]]'' there is the Little Sister Orphanage, which is really a front for little girls to be used in science experiments.
* [[Arc the Lad]] 2 gives us the White House: unlike most exemples of this trope, the kids are not openly mistreated by uncaring or sadistic by the people in charge (in fact, {{spoiler|one of its former managers, Vilmer is shown to be a descent, loving grandfather}}), but when the employees are pretty much on [[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulhu's]] payroll, you know that the facility hides [[Nightmare Fuel|very dark, horrific secrets]], and oh boy does it not disapoint: the orphans (which were forcingly taken from their family at best, {{spoiler|witnesses of their families slaughter and people's genocide at worst}}) are kept complient by {{spoiler|being forced to take "control medecines" suspicously similar to rape drugs which pretty much end up wiping their memories -the protagonist had amnesia for the better part of a decade thanks to them-}}, until they are dissected (chairs equipped with huge rotating saws are found in the basement)... if they are lucky: if they are unlucky, the paid-by-the-local-Cthulhu scientists overseeing the orphanage will use {{spoiler|a mix of [[Magitek|genetic engineering and dark magics]] which will turn the kids into sentient monsters whose free-will will then be overriden by powerful mind-control devices}}.
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