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{{character
|abilities=
|bonded=[[Dreaming-though-Awake]]
|aliases=The Stump
|groups={{tag|Knights Radiant}} <small>([[Order of Truthwatchers|Truthwatchers]]),</small><br /> [[Tashi's Light Orphanage]]
|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|books=[[The Stormlight Archive]]
}}
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'''Arshqqam''', also known as '''the Stump''',{{book ref|sa4|21}} is a woman who runs the [[Tashi's Light Orphanage]] in [[Yeddaw]]. She is also a [[Knights Radiant|Knight Radiant]] of the order of [[Truthwatcher]]s.{{book ref|Edgedancer|18}}{{book ref|sa4|22}}
== Appearance and Personality ==
The Stump is an elderly woman who is very stern.{{book ref|
[[Lift]] described 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 did not want to leave her life in [[Tashikk]] behind but felt compelled to join the Knight's Radiant once her powers manifested. She does 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 not to do so.{{book ref|sa4|21}}
[[Shallan|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 ==
When [[Nale]]
Some colleagues of [[Jasnah]] convinced the Stump to visit [[Azimir]], probably to speak with [[Ethid]], and she let them make sketches of her spren.{{book ref|sa3|104}}
===Expedition to Lasting Integrity===
Due to the honorspren's high-regard for Truthwatchers, The Stump was chosen by Adolin and [[Shallan]] to join the expedition to Lasting Integrity.{{book ref|sa4|20}}{{book ref|sa4|21}} She disagreed with Adolin's initial plan of trying to convince the honorspren by guilt or threat. Instead, she backed taking a more emotional and passionate approach suggested by her spren, [[Dreaming-though-Awake]] and advised Adolin that any approach would need to appeal to the honorspren's sense of honor.{{book ref|sa4|34}}
Upon Adolin's capture she, along with [[Zu (Roshar)|Zu]] and other soldiers on the expedition, left to report to [[Dalinar]] about the trial in Lasting Integrity.{{book ref|sa4|75}}
▲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 out Lift, who then heals her after Nale abandons his hunt for Radiants.{{book ref|sa2.5|19}}
== Notes ==
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