Talk of Dalinar becoming honor - that does seem like something a man of his caliber is on the path of. But at the same time.... I think that will be just as much of a bad end as Taravangian becoming Odium. Cultivation will be 2/2 for putting extremely powerful tyrants in control of the shards.... Dalinar has a strong sense of honor and morality, but he also is very quick to decide that he knows best and enforcing that view onto others whether they like it or not. We see it in his parenting towards Adolin. We see it in the direct control he keeps exerting over the Stormfather. It doesn't feel like he's trying to direct the Stormfather towards a better way.... he's going to force the Stormfather to go the way he wants. We also see it in some off hand thoughts he has about Fen's Thaylen City being partially governed by influential merchants, the Azish system where the Emperor is more symbol than monarch, and in Jasnah's ideas about reducing the power of the monarchy in Alethkar. He thinks all of this is foolish and that the monarch should take control... and he has thoughts about how he could help them maintain or increase their power. He's restraining from acting on these thoughts... but if there was no singer / Fused / Odium type threat... would he? What would this guy do if he actually became Honor?
Cultivation thinks she put a well meaning intelligent person in control of the shard of Odium... and it's clear she's wrong. I think she'll be wrong about making Dalinar into Honor as well. He'll become a villain... if he manages to avoid becoming Odium's champion to make it that far.
Thaidakar. Seems there's rampant speculation that Kelsier is the head of the Ghostbloods, especially with that Word of Brandon fanning the flames. I think in terms of capability and style... yeah, it kinda does seem like Kelsier. But... the Ghostbloods are at best amoral, at worst deliberate murderers who will harm anybody and everything to achieve their goals. One of Kelsier's best character defining moments was being ashamed of how much he let his hatred of the nobility drive him to monstrous acts. That's not Kelsier on a normal day. Kelsier cares about people, and so I have a hard time imagining him being directly behind these assholes. All in all, it's very possible Kelsier is behind the ghostbloods but I'm not sure that I want him to be.
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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG