Character from The Black Company by Glen Cook
The Taken who never speaks and survived his own execution — carries the rope marks around his neck like a badge of office.
The Hanged Man is one of the less individually characterized Taken — he's present, he's powerful, he serves the Lady, and his silence is different from Silent's volitional quiet. The Hanged Man's silence feels like death holding still. He was executed and survived, and the experience didn't improve his personality. He's one of the Taken who dies during the northern wars, killed as the Lady's forces thin out over the course of the conflict.
Wears a perpetual noose-mark around his neck — scarring from a hanging that didn't take. Silent, still, and deeply unsettling in the way that a corpse that learned to walk would be. His Taken name is literally what happened to him: someone hanged him and he didn't die.
Also known as: The Hanged Man