The fused: fundamentally unsustainable for long-war?

[+Lewis Nethur He/Him]

So...I haven't read through the Wind and Truth samples yet...but it occurred to me that the war on Roshar may not be plausible to resolve within the given time-frame for book-5.

My question to the community today is simply: "if a formally declared peace accord between Rosharn People and Parsh People is not achieved within the ten day allowance that appears to be outlined for book 5, then what shall become of the war on Roshar and how shall the conflict resolve or settle itself in the (expected) hiatus and time-skip before book 6 begins to be seriously discussed in fine detail?

I can imagine several potential 'worst case' scenarios:

1. The Fused lose more of their sanity every time they're reborn, kill and replace a soldier on their own side everytime they die, and don't seem to be able to recruit new members. The Parshian rebels lose a multi-year slow war of attrition as their leadership class declines in intelligence and capability while struggling to hold on to power that they either cannot or just will not share with new generations of soldiers on their side.

2. The fused are simply overthrown and banished by their own rebel soldiers. There just seems to me to be incredibly little incentive for the average Parsh Person to continuing supporting any form of global conflict for any sustained period of time. In this scenario, I imagine that the greater shardic conflict and contental questions of governance and boundaries are more or less settled within book 5, but the fused maintain some degree of access to power while refusing to stop attempting to provoke new conflicts. I assume this would result in their own people killing them or finding a way to bind their souls badly enough that they may as well be dead and banished.

3. Parsh people everywhere are held accountable for the actions of the fused and the plot of book 6 includes a grand war of displacement and species-level retribution for the atrocities committed in the lead up and duration of the war in book-5. Basically, a transparent genocide scenario...

Does anybody have any thoughts on whether one or any of the above are more or less likely? Any additional alternatives we should be expecting to see or holding in our minds or hearts? Does anybody actually think the Fused could ever achieve enough "success" on the battlefield to ever be able to declare "victory?"

[Quantus he/him]

Option 4. The unprecedented ability to return with each Everstorm and not once per Desolation quickly and visibly begins to exhaust the remaining Singer population at rates never faced before.  

[+Lewis Nethur He/Him]

24 minutes ago, Quantus said:

Option 4. The unprecedented ability to return with each Everstorm and not once per Desolation quickly and visibly begins to exhaust the remaining Singer population at rates never faced before.  

Hahaha, I mean...that's kind of what I meant by option-2, but awesome, sure!

[Quantus he/him]

10 minutes ago, hwiles said:

Hahaha, I mean...that's kind of what I meant by option-2, but awesome, sure!

Oh, sorry.  

As to the core question, I honestly think we'll see both Radiant Orders and Fused Brands join both sides, completely upending the traditional sides, with subgroups going any and all ways.  I think you'll find more among the fused that want to defect (either to ease the madness of reDeath or to return to the Spren), but also some energized by the new management. Similarly I expect more Spren races and thus Orders to side with Odium like the Skybreakers have done. We know at least one unMade is interested in defecting, and just for narrative symmetry I would not be terribly surprised to learn that the Nightwatcher has decided to side with Todium for her own reasons.