Board Thread:Wiki/@comment-5774380-20180601014250/@comment-1327106-20180601022937

I didn't think the undamaged blade is intended to be his. It's presented like a memorial with the cloak hanging it. That wouldn't needed to be his blade in particular.

And I do recognize that it would be nearly impossible for him to escape, but that doesn't change the fact that the function of that kind of epilogue in popular media is to show that somehow the character lived.

If someone was thrown off a cliff in a movie, so far off that there's no way they could have grabbed on to the wall, but the post-credit scene showed a hand reaching up to climb over the edge, you would still interpret that as the character lived. You might complain about the realism of it to your friends after watching the movie (I would), but you know what it means.

It's not any different here. Short of a body, the interpretation is the character lived. It doesn't matter if it's a 0.0000000001% chance. Without proof to the contrary, the post-credit scene is teasing the player with the possibility that chance actually happened. There's no other reason for that scene to exist.