WoR ch 63 - do we know who the woman is pattern wants to visit?

[Miggins]

Hi. I'm a first time reader and I've read published order up to ch 63 in WoR. I noticed in ch 63 there is a woman pattern tells Shallan about who is putting excrement on the walls and writing messages. Do we know who this was? I couldn't find any info online.

[Honorless he/him]

4 hours ago, Miggins said:

Hi. I'm a first time reader and I've read published order up to ch 63 in WoR. I noticed in ch 63 there is a woman pattern tells Shallan about who is putting excrement on the walls and writing messages. Do we know who this was? I couldn't find any info online.

Okay, I somehow missed this completely, I don't have the book with me and quarantine. Could you type up the extract here? 

[Gderu]

I really don't think this is important. I can't see any of the heralds doing this, not if we are meant to have a measure of respect for them. Sometimes a madwoman is just a madwoman.

[KandraAllomancer he/him]

I just re-read that fragment and she seems to be a random madwoman held in the same monastery as Taln. Pattern is absolutely fascinated by her though.

[Ripheus23]

She will be a major character in the ninth planned Elantris novel as well as MBE10 and the 17th AU.

[joesleepsalot he/him]

[joesleepsalot he/him]

[Karger he/him]

We do not to the best of my knowledge know who she is or if she is important at all.

[Honorless he/him]

Thanks @joesleepsalot! Okay, I think that part's just for humor and that isn't a mad Herald or some other important character

[joesleepsalot he/him]

Hmm..... weeeell, I generally would agree. But Brandon doesn’t waste any words or details. The fact that is happened 2 doors down from Taln MIGHT carry some weight? Perhaps a cameo of another herald

[+robardin he/him]

On 4/25/2020 at 0:02 PM, Gderu said:

I really don't think this is important. I can't see any of the heralds doing this, not if we are meant to have a measure of respect for them. Sometimes a madwoman is just a madwoman.

I agree that the most likely Option #1 is just that:

Option #2: She's faking mental illness to get out of something unpleasant, which is attractive to a Cryptic and she'll be another Lightweaver who somewhere way, way down the line gets outed by Pattern on that point, to her deep embarrassment (like Shallan getting outed by Kaladin as a "Horneater princess" when she first arrived to Dalinar's camp).

Edited April 27, 2020 by robardin

[Staenbridge]

@robardin have to agree with option #1 myself, but much more importantly: it makes me very happy to see Farside comics in the wild. 

[Subvisual Haze]

It might be a subtle reference to Taravangian's Day of Brilliance, and making a commentary on the strange similarities between days of extreme brilliance and insanity (especially as it symbolically relates to psychotic mania episodes in people with type 1 bipolar depression).  Taravangian also wrote and drew things all over the walls and objects in his room (some even in his own made up hieroglyphic language or other strange ciphers) very similarly to how a psychotic patient might.  His stream of consciousness writing just happened to be grounded in true prophecy though (and not written in bodily fluids as far as we know).  But it's not like a psychotic person doing a similar behavior wouldn't also think their crazy ramblings were divinely inspired either.