Bliev

I interpreted this: //"Burning. Overwhelming. Power. It as the scream of a thousand warriors on the battlefield. It was the moment of most sensual touch and ecstasy. It was the sorrow of loss, the joy of victory. And it was hatred. Deep, pulsing hatred with a pressure to turn all things molten. It was the heat of a thousand suns, it was the lives of all men wrapped up in one, defined by everything they felt."// As indicating "the burden of God's divine hatred"--in that it is everything that God "hates" and the anger shown in the hatred of it, so not just the emotion of hatred, but the embodiment of what God himself would proclaim to hate: selfishness, power, angry, murder, lust, emotion devoid of focus. All of this filtered through what Rayse himself hated--which is probably the idea of God himself and all who now embody portions of him/Adolnasium. It even seems like he's willing to give himself to others as the focus/object of their hate: "blame me--I did this" in order to channel that emotion into Odium's own power--a self-fulfilling cycle of hatred. Sustaining hatred at that level is too much. Which also, to me, would explain why Odium might have splintered off the more uncontrollable parts of god's hatred: gluttony/lust, passion for the kill, etc. They interfered with his ability to strategize. But I don't know about that. Those splinters now have their own separate intentions, which Odium obviously has no idea might act differently when divorced from his divine hatred.

I suppose I never felt that Shallan had actual "feelings" for Kaladin--he didn't comfort her or give her strength, in as much as he excited her. The use of the word "leering" by Brandon seemed telling. Veil is comfortable around men and feels comfortable with her baser feelings--Kal felt like the "bad boy", the one she "couldn't have", but he didn't give her what she needed. I feel like Adolin gives her that. Wit tells her that she has to learn to accept all of those aspects of herself as truly herself--he says he sees the real her in much the same way that Adolin does. And as Dalinar notes, it's all about choice. Shallan chooses Adolin because she feels her best self when she is with him. He gives her what she needs. Parts of herself rebel against that, but she chooses. I think that's actually an important character arc. She doesn't deflect, she owns it--and she represses Veil's "leering" purposefully, knowing that Veil is just the sort that would sabotage Shallan's happiness in that way for her own ends. Yes, she has development to go--a lot--just like Adolin and Kaladin do. But I think she'll navigate it better with Adolin's steadiness and lightness more than Kal's intransigence and brooding. Plus, much like Jasnah, I don't think that Kal really needs that sort of relationship right now. But I've always been on the Shadolin train. haha

It is my way. lol

Hi, all! I just don't see a romantic relationship as part of anything Jasnah wants--or, most importantly, needs. Syl notes that Kal *needs* someone to lighten him. Shallan knows that she *needs* Adolin to ground her and to provide her with confidence and support. Jasnah chooses Renarin--her family--over her logic. But while she chooses mercy and love over logic, she still does so with logic as its underpinning. I don't think you ask a Radiant to forgo something so central to her essence. Jasnah's true love is knowledge and information, and she does so in the service to her family, to humankind, and to knowledge itself. I guess I had more fun with the Kal/Shallan/Adolin shipping from book 2, and even am intrigued a bit with an Azure/Kal ship, but Jasnah is complete on her own. At least until she has to face her own insanity, which I imagine will come in a few more books. :-)

Yes, I think it's likely something like "I will accept that I cannot protect everyone."