Jason Pringles

Maybe Adonalsium saw itself as stagnant and meant for the shattering to allow its aspects to improve. The WaT indication near the end, that the power of Honor can learn, definitely gives weight to the idea that Adonalsium may have seen some plan or long-term benefit to shattering - to learn and grow. There was so much of Tanavast's internal negotiation with the power, and that the power itself could be persuaded to some degree. There were so many storylines hammering the same point - Adolin's oaths vs. promises, Szeth's break with obedience, Nale and the Skybreakers' reckoning, and even Odium's obsession with being technically "honest" and "right" while being absolutely evil in the process. And ultimately this was Honor's way forward - to learn to honor "honor" rather than obedience and strictness. I'm reminded of the Riftwar Saga (Robert E. Feist) which had a spiritual system of gods being the manifestation of humans' perception and attention on them, and that life and death of mortals is the process where souls leave the gods to gain experience, and then re-merge into that consciousness upon death to increase in understanding.