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|It was 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. A deep, pulsing hatred with a pressure to turn all things molten. It was the heat of a thousand suns, it was the bliss of every kiss, it was the lives of all men wrapped up in one, defined by everything they felt.
|[[Dalinar]] describing Odium{{book ref|sa3|57}}
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'''Odium''' is the [[Shard]] of [[Adonalsium]] {{nosnippet|originally held by [[Rayse]]}}, and currently held by [[Taravangian]].{{
== Intent ==
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The Shard of Odium is even harder to control than [[Ruin]].{{wob ref|
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[[Rayse]] has a tendency towards self-deception, and apart from him, everyone understands Odium as being the Shard of hatred.{{wob ref|9507}} While it's possible for a Vessel to influence a Shard to an extent, Odium's declaration of being Passion should not be taken at face value.{{wob ref|12312}} It has been noted that while Odium claims to be Passion, that passions other than hatred, such as love, are absent from the emotions inspired in his followers.{{book ref|sa4|83}}
Apart from the issue of the Shard's nature, Rayse desired to become the sole god of the [[cosmere]].{{epigraph ref|sa4|33}}{{book ref|mb7|20}}{{wob ref|5489}} Whether this is due to the Vessel or the Shard is unknown.
== Associated Magics ==
=== Voidlight ===
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=== Raysium ===
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Raysium is a [[God Metal]], a physical form of Odium's raw power. It is gold-white in color and its ability to conduct
=== Voidbinding ===
=== Spren ===
Despite his reservations about [[Invest]]ing into a planet, Odium has created numerous [[spren]] in the Rosharan system, known collectively as [[Voidspren]].{{book ref|sa2|81}} Some of them are intelligent, and capable of autonomous thought in the Physical Realm despite not being bonded to a living creature, in contrast to most spren of [[Honor]] or [[Cultivation]].{{book ref|sa3|17}}{{book ref|sa3|i|3}} Others are as mindless as ordinary emotion or nature spren. [[Singer]]s can bond the latter to become [[Regal]]s, taking the spren into their [[gemheart]]s to gain forms with supernatural abilities ranging from speaking all languages, to summoning lightning.{{book ref|sa2|81}}{{book ref|sa3|i|7}}
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=== Fused ===
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Fused are [[Cognitive Shadow]]s of singers bound to Odium. This grants them numerous benefits, chief among them the ability of resurrection by taking over the bodies of their living kinsmen. During the [[True Desolation]], this can occur when the [[Everstorm]] passes over singers who have been mentally primed to let something into their [[gemheart]]s.{{book ref|sa3|i|6}} How this bonding happened before the Everstorm existed is unknown. Odium is able to take away their immortality.{{book ref|sa3|118}}{{wob ref|15736}}
The Fused can use Voidlight to heal themselves, as well to fuel their use of [[Surge]]s. Unlike [[Knights Radiant]], the Fused have access to only one Surge each. Lady [[Leshwi]] claims that the Fused are more skilled with their Surge, however, due to Fused being more internally focused, while Radiants are more externally focused.
=== Passions ===
{{quote
|I DO NOT THINK THAT IS TRUE, VYRE, THOUGH I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU THINK IT SO. I FEEL YOUR PASSIONS, AS THEY ARE MINE. I UNDERSTAND YOU.
|Odium speaking to [[Moash]]{{book ref|sa4|i|4}}
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By Connecting with someone, Odium is able to take away their negative emotions and passions.{{book ref|sa4|i|4}} This includes fear, anger, pain, and insecurities. When negative emotions come up, they are quickly sucked away by Odium, leaving the person feeling nothing. This Connection can be disrupted, allowing the person to feel their pain in full.{{book ref|sa4|111}}
== History ==
=== Ancient History ===
==== Creation and initial killings ====
Odium was created at the [[Shattering]],
{{wob ref|9683}} when the creator god, [[Adonalsium]], was killed by sixteen people, splitting it into sixteen [[Shards]].{{msh ref|3|2}} One of those killers was [[Rayse]], who chose for himself the Shard of Odium.{{epigraph ref|sa2|71}}
At some point after Ascending, Odium went after one of his fellow Shards, [[Ambition]], as he felt most threatened by her intent. However, before he could find her, he located two other Shards, [[Devotion]] and [[Dominion]], in the [[Selish system]].{{wob ref|1550}} Because they had settled together, Odium attacked them since he could argue that they were breaking the agreement the Vessels made about not being in the same system as another Shard.{{wob ref|8358}} Through means unknown, Odium killed and [[Splinter]]ed them both.{{book ref|sa1|22}}{{wob ref|2614}}{{au ref|Sel}} To prevent their remaining power from gaining intelligence of its own, he then pulled them out of the [[Spiritual Realm]] and into the [[Cognitive Realm|Cognitive]], creating the [[Dor]] and causing [[Sel]]'s magic systems to become location-dependent.{{wob ref|1473}} He wasn't very experienced at the time, and his countermeasure failed as the Dor did, indeed, begin to gain a measure of sentience.{{au ref|Sel}}{{wob ref|9616}}
After creating the Dor, Odium went on to the [[Threnodite system]], where he found and attacked his initial target, Ambition. During the fight, Ambition was dealt a grievous wound, and chunks of her power were flung across the system.{{au ref|Threnody}} Ambition managed to flee the system,{{au ref|Threnody}} but was still Splintered in a fight with Odium.{{epigraph ref|sa4|27}} The Shard [[Mercy]] was also involved in at least one battle with Ambition and Odium.{{epigraph ref|sa4|27}} These clashes resulted in a wound in the Spiritual Realm{{epigraph ref|sa4|27}} and had "disturbing" effects that "twisted" the planet [[Threnody]] and its inhabitants.{{epigraph ref|sa4|27}}{{au ref|Threnody}}
==== Battle with Honor ====
Next, over 7000 Rosharan years before the True Desolation,{{book ref|sa4|14}}{{book ref|sa4|76}} Odium set out for [[Rosharan system]], seeking to kill either [[Honor]], [[Cultivation]], or both
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|I am … I was … God. The one you call the Almighty, the creator of mankind. And now I am dead. Odium has killed me. I am sorry.
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Honor fought Odium with assistance from Cultivation,{{wob ref|2729}}
=== Preparations ===
Killing Honor did not free Odium from Braize, and the sacrifice of the Herald [[Taln]] meant that he could not send his armies to [[Roshar]]. And so, for the next four and a half thousand years, he prepared for the time when Taln would break, allowing for one last [[Desolation]] -- the [[True Desolation]].{{book ref|sa3|38}}
Odium, though severely limited by Honor's actions, was nonetheless active.
As one of his [[Unmade]], [[Nergaoul]], was still free, Odium sent him to [[Alethkar]] to facilitate the [[Thrill]] among the Alethi. Over the centuries, the battle-rage brought about by Nergaoul became normal, and even desirable to the Alethi men; this developed affinity allowed Odium to control them using the Thrill.{{book ref|sa3|115}} Moreover, the Thrill allowed Odium to groom a champion whom he could later put in command of his armies and use to release himself. In the final decades of the [[Era of Solitude]], such a potential champion appeared in the form of [[Dalinar Kholin]]. Odium focused on him to ensure he had as many hooks in him as possible.{{book ref|sa3|118}}
Odium also focused on the [[listener]]s, a group of [[singers]] that had denied him some centuries prior. On the day of a treaty between them and the Alethi, Odium used one of his [[voidspren]] to lead them to buy an assassin, [[Szeth]], who was used when [[Eshonai]] found out that the Alethi king, [[Gavilar Kholin]], intended to release the very gods the listeners had once fled. Whether Gavilar's plan was inspired by Odium or not, it pushed the listeners to assassinate him, leading to the [[War of Reckoning]].{{book ref|sa3|prologue}} The War brought tremendous losses to the listeners, until the idea of assuming the old forms of power grew appealing to them.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}} Through Ulim, Odium persuaded the listeners to assume [[stormform]] and summon the [[Everstorm]], beginning the True Desolation.{{book ref|sa3|84}}
==== Contest of Champions ====
A year later, Odium brought Dalinar into a vision and agreed to set the terms of their contest.{{book ref|sa4|112}} Although Odium's most important point was being able to leave Roshar--a restriction that Dalinar ''could'' have lifted, as the largest remnant of Honor's Investiture--Dalinar refused, deciding that since Honor had died to keep Odium in the system, that point would need to remain. At this point, Odium came very close to incinerating Dalinar, almost losing control of his Intent, but managed to keep his temper in check.
{{image|Taravangian killing Rayse by Nozomi.png|side=right|height=300px|[[Taravangian]] killing [[Rayse]] and Ascending to Odium}}
|2=The [[Stormfather]] to [[Kaladin]]{{book ref|sa1|46}}
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Throughout his existence, Odium has had profound effect on the [[cosmere]] and several of its [[Cosmere#Planets|planets]] in particular. He has been called the most frightening and terrible of all Shards, and with good reason.{{epigraph ref|sa1|19}} He has a wish to become the sole god in the Cosmere, and to that end, he has gone around the Cosmere Splintering, or attempting to Splinter, all other Shards.{{epigraph ref|sa4|33}}{{book ref|mb7|20}}{{wob ref|5489}}
On [[Sel]], Odium's murder of [[Devotion]] and [[Dominion]] suffused the entirety of the planet's [[Cognitive Realm]], fuelling its magic systems. The [[seon]]s and [[skaze]] are [[splinter]]s of Devotion and Dominion respectively.{{au ref|Sel}}
* The mere mention of the word Odium makes [[Syl]] hiss.{{book ref|sa1|46}}
* Odium is very scared of [[Harmony]].{{wob ref|4437}}
* Odium might currently have an alliance -- or, at least, an understanding -- with [[Bavadin]], the
* In ''[[wikipedia:Magic: The Gathering|Magic:The Gathering]]'' colors, Odium would be red.{{wob ref|11057}}
* Odium is weirded out by [[Lift]].{{wob ref|12898}}
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* Jasnah would be a good candidate for controlling Odium's power.{{wob ref|15239}}
* Odium was not in possession of a [[Dawnshard]].{{wob ref|15888}}
* Rayse was aware of [[Thaidakar]]. It is unknown whether Taravangian is.{{wob ref|16396}}
== Notes ==
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