Tales from the Dawn

[Lurina]

It also "all make sense" if you strike out that one scene of the Sundering – the only scene in the whole game that paints her in a villainous light – and rewrite that event to play out differently. There are ways to write a scenario where Venat did not choose the Sundering but it happened as an unforeseen effect of what she was actually trying to do.

Rewrite lots of things or rewrite one thing. Which seems more likely?

The issue with presenting the Sundering as an accident is that it's rendered impossible by us giving her foreknowledge of the event, which in turn can't really be removed as a plot point without compromising the whole part of the story where Venat leads us to travel to Elpis to begin with, and everything to do with the Meteion tracker.

When I actually start thinking about how to 'fix' the Sundering and make Venat come across the way the writers (or at least Yoshi-P) probably wanted, I realize that it becomes incredibly hard without breaking something or re-doing half of Endwalker's plot. It is a mess in a very complicated way where the aggressive handwaving done in the story becomes sorta understandable.