I've been thinking about this, and I think we might be proscribing too large a significance to who he is talking about. Here's the scene condensed. As much as I also want to put huge cosmeric weight to those words, I think Odium is more concerned with the immediate present. He's also probably as familiar with shardic theory as anyone is, having splintered multiple shards after ascending himself, and he repeatedly states that as Bondsmith Dalinar has authority to speak/act for Honor, so it
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