Whether or not it’s literally calling to her to become hers or it’s calling to her because she knows it will be taken back to Luke-we’ll see.” By the end of The Rise of Skywalker it’s pretty clear that Rey was just guarding the weapon until Ben was worthy of his grandfather’s blade.īut as is traditional for a high-level Jedi, Rey decides to make her own weapon and, in case you missed it, she has constructed it out of her old staff and wrapped it in strips of leather for a very distinctive Scavenger-Jedi look. In The Force Awakens, Maz says that the saber is calling to Rey now. “In general,” Lucasfilm Story Group creative executive Pablo Hidalgo explained to Vanity Fair at the time of The Last Jedi, “a lightsaber belongs to the person who constructed it.
magically appeared in his hands (a Force gift from Rey) when Ben Solo needed it most in his confrontation with the Knights of Ren.
