The Ten Who Were Taken

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.

Also known as: The Taken, The Ten Who Were Taken, The Ten

What They Know

• Ten sorcerer-generals bound to the Lady's service through true-name magic — enslaved rather than recruited
• The original Ten: Soulcatcher, the Limper, Shapeshifter, the Hanged Man, Stormbringer, Bonegnasher, Moonbiter, Nightcrawler, the Faceless Man, Howler
• Bound using true-name compulsion — knowledge of a sorcerer's true name grants control over them, which is why the Taken and the Lady guard their names with lethal intensity
• Their power is immense individually — each can command armies and reshape battlefields with sorcery
• Paranoia and rivalry define their interactions — they spend as much energy plotting against each other as fighting the Lady's enemies
• Gradually killed off across the northern books — the Lady's sorcerous advantage erodes through attrition

Connections

• commanded_by — lady
• created_by — the_dominator
• includes — soulcatcher
• includes — the_limper
• includes — howler
• includes — shapeshifter
• includes — the_hanged_man
• includes — stormbringer
• includes — bonegnasher
• includes — moonbiter
• includes — nightcrawler
• includes — the_faceless_man

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