What Rey's New Lightsaber Really Means

Rey has been using hand-me-downs since the first moment she touched a lightsaber in The Force Awakens, but with the ending of The Rise of Skywalker, she finally has one of her own. Here's what Rey's new lightsaber really means.

In The Force Awakens, Rey first wielded Luke Skywalker's old lightsaber, which originally belonged to Anakin Skywalker. With Emperor Palpatine finally defeated, Rey returns to where fans' journey with Star Wars began 42 years ago: the Lars family moisture farm on the planet Tattooine, where Luke grew up.

Rey buries both Luke's famous lightsaber and the one Leia used when she was training to become a Jedi in the desert near the farm, before pulling out a new lightsaber she has finally forged for herself.

Fortunately for fans, it's not the double-bladed red lightsaber seen in the trailers for The Rise of Skywalker. The lightsaber that Rey ends up with is a yellow lightsaber, which is quite rare in the Star Wars universe.

The yellow lightsaber has most often been seen in the galaxy far, far away in the hands of the Temple Guards on the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Of course, Rey is certainly not joining the Temple Guard, considering the Jedi temple would be fairly empty given the lack of Jedi. But there's plenty of other symbolism attached to the yellow lightsaber as well.

Star Wars lore dictates that yellow lightsabers are carried by the Sentinels, one of the major schools of thought within the old Jedi Order that tries to find balance between the Consulars, which typically bear green blades, and the Guardians, who normally wield blue lightsabers. Keep watching the video to see what Rey's new lightsaber really means!

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A new blade | 0:13
Yellow lightsabers and the Sentinels | 0:55
Rey's chosen identity | 1:44
A piece of Rey's past | 3:24
Will we see it again? | 4:07