jonrober

I think there's another reason that wasn't stated (that I remember) but was a part of what we'd seen in earlier books. Dalinar and Jasnah had to work hard to get the other members of the coalition on their side. It felt like a lot of the work was built on the back of Jasnah's reputation. She wasn't like other Alethi. She saw clearly and was fair and was bigger than Alethi traditions. She was someone that Fen could potentially trust. And then everything that Odium revealed made her sound more and more like a normal Alethi solving problems with the knife. Sure, she didn't actually pull the trigger on most of those plans that Odium mentioned, but her morality still set her up to consider a lot of things that to Fen must have sounded very Alethi in nature. It wasn't just the personal betrayal of Jasnah considering a hit on Fen, it was undermining the trust in Jasnah that made the entire coalition work. Once Jasnah loses that, even if it's for things that "any monarch" might consider, Fen has to wonder what else Jasnah's philosphy would allow for. Odium had already brought up "even if you can trust Jasnah, can you trust her descendants" to put her in mind about trusting Alethi in general.