Jumanji_Shishioh said:

Well, Zant only served the royal family, but the people chose Midna over him. Also, I haven’t heard anywhere where Midna was a member of the royal family. If there was, lemme know, I can’t remember in-game where the fact was at.

The debate over whether there is a Royal family, or there isn’t a royal family, has been a something I have tossed around in my mind.

Now there is two major quotes in the game to consider when debating this:

Midna, after beating Zant: “Traitors. ha! You want to know why none would call you king? It was your eyes, Zant. All saw it, a lust for power burning in your pupils… Did you think we’d forget our ancestors lost their king to such greed?”

Zant, just before you fight him: “I had served and endured in that depraved household for far too long, my impudent princess. And why, you ask? Because I believed I would be next to rule our people! THATS why! But would they acknowledge me as their king? No!”

Now, from those two quotes you learn a few things. One is that whoever was the ruler before Midna, Zant was serving them with the intention of becoming the next ruler. Now, Midna indicates that the people chose who was the king. Now, the assumption of Royal family is more so a theory of mine and many others.

Based off safe assumptions, there obviously is a order, or “canidate” type system in choosing the ruler. I suppose it would be like the United States Presidential election process, on a smaller scale. Obviously, Zant wasn’t chosen based on his eye’s in regards to historical events. Anyways, thats about all I can say.

The rest is pure speculation.

Jumanji_Shishioh said:

Emily said:

As far as I can remember, Zant wasn’t a member of the royal family. For some reason I thought he was a servant, not a member of the bloodline, and therefore could never become king in normal fashion. I could be mistaken, though.

Wasn’t the ruling system democratic? As in voting for who would be their leader, ya know?

I don’t think so… having a king implies having a royal family. I’ve got to quote a little Monty Python here and say, “You don’t vote for kings!” If he were the prime minister or something, that would be different. But to be king, one must be part of the bloodline… or overthrow the current ruling family, which I think was Zant’s plan. Thus, he would be a “usurper.”

Mike Fireball said:

Do we know for sure that Zant intentionally popped his own neck? I’m not fully convinced.

No one else popped his neck (not even Snake) so I’m pretty it was intentional.

Emily said:

As far as I can remember, Zant wasn’t a member of the royal family. For some reason I thought he was a servant, not a member of the bloodline, and therefore could never become king in normal fashion. I could be mistaken, though.

Wasn’t the ruling system democratic? As in voting for who would be their leader, ya know?

Anyways, I’ve had a thought about Zant. Although he’s not as bright as Ganondorf thinks he is, Zant may have known something Ganondorf didn’t. First off, After Link dealt the final blow to Ganondorf, he stood for a few moments, uttering revenge while barely holding on, when the screen switches over to Zant, who pops his neck, and then Ganondorf died. I’m thinking, when he and Zant were (hypothetically) discussing how one would bring back the other, Ganondorf probably didn’t know that, whether it was voluntary or not, Ganondorf would have brought Zant back to life. Perhaps Zant was watching Ganondorf from the shadows, and learned of Ganon’s treacheries, so when Zant popped his neck, he severed their life force link or something, and without the Triforce of Power, Ganondorf died. I figured this because in the game, a lot of team work where the Twilit beings depended on one thing or another to exist, and TML mentioned before about how Link and Midna need each other, and Ganondorf and Zant needed each other, and beings of light need beings of shadow to go in or out of shadow.