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"The sword is a symbol of the monarchy and a reminder that it is not blood that chooses the ruler of Alderaan. It is choice. Your father and I-we choose you. To be our daughter and our future queen. And I want you to know, my love, that even though you are a part of a family that has many obligations and duties that come with our privileges, always have the right to a choice. Whoever you marry, it is your choice. And when you marry, I will strap this sword around your waist before you go to meet your husband or your wife. That is what the Rhindon Sword represents to All of Alderaan, but to the rulers especially: that we have the freedom to choose our own fate, and we have the skill and the weapons needed to defend it."
―Breha Organa, to Leia Organa[3]

The Rhindon Sword was an antique ceremonial sword that the putative heir to the throne of Alderaan would carry during their Day of Demand. It was a reminder that, in ancient times, the princes and princesses who had made their claims to the crown had sometimes had to fight their way to the throne room. The sword was also carried in the follow-up ceremony after the heir had completed their challenges, where they were formally crowned heir apparent. When not in use, the sword hung on a wall in the royal palace.[1]

Although she had practiced with it a few times before, Princess Leia Organa found the sword surprisingly heavy when she picked it up on her own Day of Demand. At her crowning ceremony several months later, after months of pathfinding classes and weapons training, she found the sword lighter.[1]

Prior to her Day of Demand Leia's mother, Queen Breha Organa, had placed the sword on Leia's bed and told her that Leia would wear the sword when she got married. By the time Leia married Corellian Han Solo,[3] in 4 ABY,[4] the sword had been destroyed along with the rest of Alderaan, with Leia thinking of it and the conversation with her mother shortly after announcing the news of her engagement to Mon Mothma, but Leia felt as though her late mother were attaching the Rhindon Sword to her waist during the ceremony as there was a moment of silence for those who could not be there.[3]

Grand Moff Tarkin was once described as having a figure as narrow and sharp as the blade of the Rhindon Sword, when announcing the arrests on Christophsis to the Imperial Senate.[1]

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Behind the scenes[]

The Rhindon Sword first appeared in Leia, Princess of Alderaan, a 2017 young-adult novel written by Claudia Gray.[1] The weapon is a reference to Rhindon,[5] the sword of Peter Pevensie from the Chronicles of Narnia fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis.[6]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Leia, Princess of Alderaan
  2. ↑ The Princess and the Scoundrel establishes that the Rhindon Sword was destroyed during the Disaster, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 0 BBY.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 The Princess and the Scoundrel
  4. ↑ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary dates the wedding of Han Solo and Leia Organa to thirty years before the "Starkiller Incident," which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 34 ABY. From this it can be deduced that the wedding took place in 4 ABY.
  5. ↑ StarWars.com 11 Revelations from Claudia Gray on Leia, Princess of Alderaan on StarWars.com (backup link)
  6. ↑ Lewis, C. S. (1950), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, London: Geoffrey Bles
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