Sundering/Saendering

All this business about the Sundering (see Monday's post) got me thinking that I had heard this term before in the context of D&D. But where? Google was no help. I racked my brain (or is it "wracked"? I digress...) until I realized that I had seen the word Sundering -- or, rather, the similar but curious term Saendering -- in Dungeons & Dragons Tactics, a turn-based game for the PSP that presents an almost slavishly faithful adaptation of the D&D 3.5e rules. If memory serves (as Chairman Kaga would say), the Saendering is a historical event in the setting of Tactics (a world that, to my knowledge, has not been used before or since this one video game) that is significant to the plot that unfolds for the player throughout the game.