At the end of The Rise of Skywalker, Rey
holds a fairly gnarly lightsaber. It doesn't look new.
Have we seen it before?
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4Don't think so, I think the implication is that she built it but we have no extra material to work off of yet.– TheLethalCarrot ♦Dec 19, 2019 at 13:04
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@Valorum This question predates the other one by a week.– z0rMar 19, 2020 at 0:27
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@z0r - We don't base closes on which comes first but which one is more useful. The other has a more descriptive title.– ValorumMar 19, 2020 at 6:45
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It looks quite similar to the staff she had from the beginning. So probably she has constructed a lightsaber from the handle of it.
Look at this picture of the staff's tip:
And compare with this image of her new lightsaber:
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1They do look somewhat similar but could you expand on this a bit more. Even just some images for comparison (which should be available) would help this answer a lot.– TheLethalCarrot ♦Dec 19, 2019 at 16:26
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2The leather wrap on the handle of her new lightsaber is also the same as the wrap on her staff. Dec 20, 2019 at 3:30
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1Additionally, the RoS visual dictionary says that her quarterstaff is made from a ‘salvaged insulated power conduit’- so it makes sense she used the staff as the base of her new sabre. Dec 26, 2019 at 14:26
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If Abrams, et. al. are really going for symbolism and pulling from extended sources, I'd also bet that the crystal was Kylo Ren's / now Ben's. There's one story of an unstable red crystal being turned yellow by a Jedi. ( starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Jaden_Korr%27s_third_lightsaber ) Wouldn't surprise me if there will be canon (novel, etc.) that describes part of the rise of Skywalker as Rey purifying Ren's crystal.– VanJan 13, 2020 at 20:39