Star Wars reveals refined hyperlink between Luke and Leia’s lightsabers

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker revealed that Princess Leia had as soon as obtained Jedi coaching, and even had a lightsaber of her very personal.

Now new ebook Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection will present some solutions about Leia’s lightsaber because the ebook is about to discover “the legendary lightsabers discovered throughout the Star Wars galaxy”, together with “fan-favourite hilts from the Skywalker saga”.

And that features Leia’s lightsaber too, and its connection to her brother Luke’s.

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The description of Leia’s lightsaber reads (through Gizmodo): “Leia’s lightsaber is a murals, outlined by elegant symmetry and silver and gold hues that evoke Leia’s regal upbringing on Alderaan.

“Curved steel grips are spaced across the midsection surrounding a crystal coronary heart that initiatives a blue blade.”

And here is the place the Luke connection is available in, as the outline ends: “The slender neck and ringed emitter of the saber bear similarities to these on Luke’s green-bladed lightsaber.”

The ebook additionally affirms why Leia did not turn out to be a full Jedi, recalling the imaginative and prescient she had about her son Ben’s future.

“After the collapse of the Empire, Leia Organa briefly undergoes training to harness her Force powers on the jungle moon of Ajan Kloss,” the passage reads.

“Her brother, Luke Skywalker, acts as her teacher, and Luke seeks to cross down the identical classes he realized from Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda.

“But Leia senses solely tragedy on the finish of her path, particularly the unshakable conviction that her coaching will result in the demise of her son. Leia quits this system and leaves her lightsaber together with her brother, who retains it with him throughout his years of exile on Ahch-To.”

Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection by Daniel Wallace is out there to pre-order now, and will probably be printed on October 20. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is out there on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K now, in addition to on Disney+, Sky Cinema Premiere and NOW TV.

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