Even though the Sundering did objectively change the world for the worse, I can't help but wonder how much better things would've been had the unsundered not existed and by extension the Ascians as a whole.

They've been instigating conflicts and creating divisions since the dawn of the post-sundered world, and the lower tier Ascians seemed to largely be assigned to just sowing discord as opposed to working towards any greater goal in particular if incidents like Haukke Manor and Sui-no-Sato were anything to go off of.