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|world=Roshar
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
|first appeared=[[Edgedancer (novella)|Edgedancer]]
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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 [[
== Appearance and Personality ==
The Stump is an elderly woman who is very stern.{{book ref|Edgedancer|6}} Many of the children in the orphanage don't like her and neither do most of the surrounding urchins.{{book ref|Edgedancer|6}} Despite this, Arshqqam looks fondly upon the children noting they gave her the nickname of the "The Stump" and calling it a "glorious title, to come from children".{{book ref|sa4|21}} She does, however, also like her original name.{{book ref|sa4|21}}
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|Her skin drooped off her bones like something you'd might hack up after catching the crud in the slums, and she had spindly fingers that Lift figured might be twigs she'd glued in place after her real ones fell off
|Lift on Arshqqam{{book ref|Edgedancer|6}}
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Arshqqam
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 joining the cause, she felt there was no excuse for her not to do so.{{book ref|sa4|21}}
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}}▼
▲[[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 ==
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}} She had been unconsciously using her spheres' [[Stormlight]] to heal sick urchins in her care, who she then mistakenly accuses of only pretending to be sick. After learning of her true nature, the charges against her are dismissed by [[Gawx|the Prime Aqasix]] on behalf of [[Lift]].{{book ref|Edgedancer|20}}▼
===Running Tashi's Light Orphanage===
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}}▼
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▲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
== Notes ==
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