Kaladin will find a statue that connects him To a spren of supreme power, then kill the spren in book 9 and instead use his shardblade to beat Odium with the help of Jasnah and Shallan.
And then at the end Kaladin will be facing Odium and he'll say " it was never about beating us, it was about breaking us because chaos will only rule when honor moves for it. Blah blah blah" he beats Odium and then instead of splintering him he keeps him whole because he thinks that he was never the real enemy or something like that.
Primary powers: summoning a horde of man-eating rabbits to kill my enemies and instant healing.
Secondary Power:the ability to know who wants to kill me and where they are at.
Weakness: If your name starts with an x and ends in a b, when you are within a 150 meters of me my powers are negated.
Cheesy name: The Rabbit Whisperer
Evil manifestation: I like to cause chaos by killing people with my hoards of rabbits.
I've found that in a lot of epic fantasy the first book is usually the slowest and dullest, but then it picks up momentum from there. If you can struggle through the first book, it just gets better and better from there.