Location from The Black Company by Glen Cook
The Lady's sorcerer-generals — ten of the most powerful wizards alive, bound to her service against their will, hating each other almost as much as they hate her, and kept in line by the knowledge that disobedience is worse than servitude.
The Ten Who Were Taken are the Lady's nuclear arsenal — sorcerer-generals of devastating individual power, bound to her service through true-name magic that the Dominator originally developed and the Lady inherited. They command her armies, enforce her will, and spend their off-hours plotting against each other because mutual paranoia is the only social dynamic available to enslaved demigods. The Taken were originally independent sorcerers who were captured and bound during the Domination. They serve the Lady because they must, not because they want to. The binding doesn't eliminate their personalities — it eliminates their choice. The Limper is still petty. Soulcatcher still changes allegiances. Howler still screams. They're the same people they always were, just in chains. Their gradual attrition across the northern books is one of the series' structural elements — the Lady starts with ten and loses them to war, betrayal, and the Company's survival instincts until her sorcerous advantage disappears.
Each Taken has their own distinctive appearance — Soulcatcher in masks and stolen voices, the Limper dragging his shifting limp, Howler wrapped in rags on his carpet. Collectively, they project an aura of overwhelming sorcerous power barely contained by political hierarchy. They travel with entourages and terror.
Also known as: The Taken, The Ten Who Were Taken, The Ten