Quote Originally Posted by Lurina View Post
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 plot where Venat leads us to travel to Elpis to begin, 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.
Its quite easy if you address the issue of the time travel itself and the idea that the sundering happened twice.

There is a time-line where the events happened without us being in Elpis, and thus giving future information. Things happen as they were shown in Shadowbringers, where there was a fight and the Sundering happens. Time spirals into the story of the 8UC.

Then Graha goes back in time and skips out on his reality and changes history, leading to us going back in time and changing history again which in turn creates a paradox. The paradox is us going back in time at a set point and meddling at Elpis and giving Venat foreknowledge on the future. The paradoxical time loop converges back when you go and defeat Hydaelyn.