Note: This is pretty much a baseless theory Book five will end with a board game(Rosharan version a chess) between Renarin and Odium/Odium's Champion. So Odium has to accept a challenge with Dalinar, but the radiants gaining rapidly with skill and the Fused are increasingly going crazy more often. Venli is convincing the Parshmen not to fight, and most of them don't want to fight anyways. The radiants will have Cultivation when she returns, and Dalinar is slowly getting access to Honor's ab