The Reasoning behind The Sundering? (*6.0 Endwalker Spoilers*)

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I would love a clear timeline of events I will admit.

On Venats followers not knowing, I am once again not sure where this is coming from. Based on the recording at Anyder they knew that Zodiark did not solve the Final Days, a fact that only makes sense if one knows of Meteion. Is there evidence showing this is not the case?

How would knowing of Meteion make things make sense when they still agreed to the Sundering and leave everything up to the gamble that some person in the future will solve the problem? There was absolutely no mention of Meteion or that "there's a mysterious energy coming from outer space coming from a bird girl making our powers go nuts" in Anyder. It's very clear that they only knew it to be something coming from within the ground, that somehow the aether was weakening. The recording at Anyder shows not that they don't believe Zodiark hasn't fixing things but that they think the effort to return to normal isn't right at the expense of other life.

And even if they did know, then the Convocation would have found out too, wouldn't they? Unless you're suggesting Venat told her group to not tell the Convocation about Meteion's existence so they could do the Sundering unimpeded?

Because if they did know, and if they did decide that trying to pursue Meteion was just too hard for them, then they're just as bad as the Convocation. Giving up so that someone else will hopefully fix the problems.

Hermes was nuts and Lahabrea ain't looking super sane so far, 50% of the Convocation that we know about had a few screws loose.

I think people seriously overestimate how resilient the Ancients were. Hermes was already spiralling a bit from having to put rabid dogs down, he totally flipped when his experiment didn't pan out how he hoped, and no-one seemed to pick up on how unstable he was and he was made a member of the governing body of their society.

And if we go with the whole 'Hermes wasn't the only person who could make Meteia/knows about dynamis' thing, then any Ancient that doesn't take the news too well could potentially start making the problem worse.

I mean... we have Edda and Thordin and Ala Mhigo's old king, Zenos, there's others... if we're judging a faction based on how many unstable folk are in it, we aren't looking too good ourselves. This isn't getting into how many people turned into Blasphemies because they were (like Hermes) at the depths of their despair, anger, or sorrow.