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[Perry_]

So I've looked over the ending a few times, went to a couple of sources, what I would conclude is there is a lot of open ends to this ending, very little is concrete. A lot seems up for interpretation, and although no one else really supports the idea of Zant stealing the Triforce, there is a lot of speculation that Zant may still be alive or is the one that killed Ganondorf.

[MikePetersSucks]

Killing Ganondorf, yes. But only the ignorant speculate that Zant is still alive, since his lifeforce is tied to Ganondorf's. Both of them are dead at the end of TP, this is an irrevocable fact made clear in the game.

[Fin]

MPS pretty much nailed Zant's role in the game with his Onmyoji posts.

Not only does this imply that Zant has the power to travel between realms to some extent (which he demonstrates with his direct teleportation), but all of his powers tie into that of an Onmyoji's, including the weird reality-warping of his boss battle. And as Master of Ying and Yang, or Light and Shadow, he was probably the prime person to recruit to bring them together into Ganondorf's ideal Darkness.

His curses and monsters are also of an Onmyoji style, and I think there's a quote somewhere of Zant being part of the royal court. Onmyoji were usually the next person in line for the throne after any royal heirs, like the Chancellors in European kingdoms. Perhaps Midna was originally too young for the role that he would've naturally assumed.

And like most Onmyoji, Zant is soulbound to his deity, reviving as long as the other exists and vice versa and such.

And I wouldn't really pin Agahnim as an Onmyoji. His connections are pretty strenuous, but I suppose you could make the claim. I think the LTTP era wasn't very influenced by Japanese mythology as much, though.

@.@ guzhuwha??? Now that's something!! It explains Ganondorf's death a lot better!

Many Onmyoji were known to bind themselves to a Kami in a life-binding partnership. In such deals, said kami would give power to the Onmyoji, and the Onmyoji would have to fulfill the kami's will. These partnerships have usually been benign, but there are stories of partnerships with malevolent deities and spirits that involve the Onmyoji ending his own life to slay his evil deity and try to cleanse his soul in redemption. There are no tipped scales in Eastern Mythology, if you have a connection that goes one way, it goes the opposite as well. If we apply this to Ganondorf and Zant, then that means that if Zant revives as long as Ganondorf is alive, then Zant can kill Ganondorf simply by refusing to resurrect.