The questions I want EW to answer the most: WHY and HOW was the world sundered?

[Garnix]

As per the title.

Ever since I first heard about the splitting of the world into the source of its fourteen shards, these questions have been kicking around in my mind non-stop. Was this event intentional? was it an accident? Or an unavoidable consequence of something? What are the SPECIFICS of this event, aetherologically speaking?

Was it really only Hydaelyn that was responsible for the sundering? or did Zodiark also play a part in it? What about the other parties involved, the convocation and Venat's secret sect? Are they also responsible in some more direct way?

So many questions bubbling in my mind, I really would like to hear your take in all this
So what you guys think?

When Emet talks about Hydaelyn's fight against Zodiark, he says that "your 'Mother' would probably tell a different story".
So I am guessing we will hear her side of the story.
+ we still need to find out why only 3 Ancients survived.

[AlexionSkyllark]

we still need to find out why only 3 Ancients survived.

I actually have a guess on that: They escaped the sundering on account on being at the Moon when it happened.

Regardless of whether or not Hydaelyn technically tempered the WoL, she along with the assistance of everyone else who reveres her indoctrinated, manipulated, and groomed them into being her champion and carrying out her will. It wasn't questioned because Hydaelyn had always been viewed as an unquestionably benevolent force of good to the point of zealotry even among the Scions and the Echo a gift from her.

Add onto this that she's a primal and it's so much worse. She's no goddess, but the manifestation of an agenda of a dissident and we still, frankly, don't know what that agenda is.

And let's not forget that we just went through an entire expansion that basically said "Being aligned with the Light does not make anything intrinsically good."

[dreamfisher]

I actually have a guess on that: They escaped the sundering on account on being at the Moon when it happened.

You know, something I always found interesting was that the lore book says that (based on our accounts)

... The will of Light—Hydaelyn—passed judgment that Darkness should be physically excised from the planet, and cast the will of Darkness—Zodiark—into space, where it became the moon.

and later

... forcing Hydaelyn, in an act of self-preservation, to banish him to the distant heavens as a moon, bound.

and in the game, The Word of the Mother tells us

Thus was I forced to banish Him unto the distant heavens, to forever remain apart. A moon bound.

No comma. I have a few explanations in mind:
- "The scions misunderstood what they were told."
- "The scions just worded the account poorly, twice, in two different ways."
- "Hydaelyn lied to us."
- "It's just an error in the book."

The first one seeming the most reasonable to me, since it's easy to hear a comma where there isn't one, I guess.
And errors do happen more often than we seem to like to acknowledge, but I still have a difficult time dismissing the possibility that the moon was created as a part of the sundering.

Does anyone have irrefutable proof they could point me toward?