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[[Lift]] describes her as a shrivelled up weed of a woman. Further, she says that the woman looks like the child of a broom and a particularly determined clump of moss. According to Lift, "the woman's skin drips off her bones like something one might hack up after catching the crud in the slums, and ... she has spindly fingers that Lift figures might otherwise be twigs she'd glued in place after her real ones fell off".{{book ref|Edgedancer|6}} In turn, once joining the Knight's Radiant, the Stump confesses she is fond of Lift though feels Lift needs a "firm hand". {{book ref|sa4|21}}
Arshqqam didn't want to leave her life in Tashikk behind but felt compelled to join the Knight's Radiant once her powers manifested. She did not understand why she in particular was chosen given her advanced age but if Lift, a child, was doing joining the cause, she felt there was no excuse for her
Veil looks favourably on the Stump, commenting that there is more to the Stump than the surface level would suggest. She notes Arshqqam's careful yet understated attention to her appearance and the ease with which she is able to discuss strategy with Adolin, a powerful man, without being intimidated.{{book ref|sa4|34}}
== History ==
She runs the orphanage and seems to have done so for some time. She isn't well liked by those on the outside; according to Lift, they say she's mean; that she only gives away food because she wants to look good for the officials who watch the place,{{book ref|Edgedancer|6}} yet it is possible that she founded the orphanage. She was known to run a money laundering scheme that involved exchanging donations to the orphanage with dun [[spheres]].{{book ref|Edgedancer|14}}
When [[Nale]] instructs his [[Skybreaker]]s to hunt down a Radiant in Yeddaw, they mistakenly think it was [[Arclo]]. In truth, Nale was after the Stump. After a brief altercation involving Lift, the Herald stabs the Stump but does not kill her immediately, in order to lure Lift out, who then heals her after Nale abandons his hunt for Radiants.{{book ref|Edgedancer|19}}
===Expedition to Lasting Integrity===
Due to the honorsprens high-regard for Truthwatchers, The Stump is chosen by Adolin and Shallan to join the expedition to Lasting Integrity
Along with [[Zu]] and other soldiers on the expedition, she leaves to report to Dalinar about Adolin's capture and trial in Lasting Integrity.{{book ref|sa4|75}}
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