I Think the Blackthornas Are Influenced by Odium's Targa

Dalinar is targeted by odium for the most intense aversion of power, a sort of undiluted thrill. I think that it is most likely that parts of dalanar's brilliance on the battlefield, and then his kind of feared nature were directly because of this kind of focused thrill he was exposed to. So he's just like dealing with the focused where, you know, for you or i, we may hear the drum beats of war, but to dalinar, it's like his own beating heart is linked up with the the drum beat itself of war.