She offered it to Luke Skywalker when she finally met him but he threw it behind him. Later, the lightsaber was shattered in half when Rey and Kylo Ren both used the Force to obtain possession of the device. Rey took the shattered lightsaber with her after that.
It's the Force ghost of Luke Skywalker that gifts the Leia Organa lightsaber to Rey in The Rise of Skywalker. She carries it into the Battle of Exegol to face Palpatine, and this proves wise, as a redeemed Ben Solo soon arrives sans lightsaber.
Whose Lightsaber Does Rey Have at the End of The Rise of Skywalker? In addition to her own yellow lightsaber, Rey Skywalker has Leia's lightsaber and the Skywalker lightsaber (which belonged to Anakin, Luke and Rey herself) at the end of The Rise of Skywalker.
The lightsaber was taken by Obi-Wan and given to Luke, and then later found by Rey. But Anakin built it. Anakin went through the trials to make the lightsaber. The kyber crystal in the lightsaber called out to Anakin, not Luke or Rey.
At the end of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Rey visited Luke's childhood home on Tatooine. While on the planet, when someone asked her who she was, Rey responded by saying that she was "Rey Skywalker." Although she wasn't related to them, both Luke and Leia had been mentors to Rey throughout the sequel trilogy.
But a new tie-in novel, Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher, finally fixes this. Rey's parents are none other than Dathan and Miramir. No, that's not a typo. Her dad's name is Dathan, which is at least slightly better than Sheev Palpatine.
Rey was born on Hyperkarn in 15 ABY during the rise of the New Republic. Her father, Dathan, was a bioengineered Strand-Cast cloned from the genetic template of Darth Sidious, the Sith Lord who ruled the Galactic Empire as Emperor Palpatine.
In The Last Jedi, during Rey and Kylo Ren's confrontation in Snoke's throne room, Luke's original lightsaber was split in half, and as shown later on in the movie, the crystal had been divided too, but in The Rise of Skywalker, which takes place one year after the previous movie, Rey is shown to have rebuilt it.
Rey reforged her lightsaber during the First Order-Resistance War, so when she did it, maybe she picked a yellow lightsaber because she wants to carry on the legacy of the Jedi Sentinels from ages past? After all, the Jedi Sentinels were chosen from the best of the best of Jedi Knights.
There, Rey unveiled her finished, single-bladed weapon after burying the two lightsabers of her mentors, Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, at the ruins of the Lars homestead—the former place of residence of the Skywalker family.
And before she switched to her white sabers, Ahsoka Tano owned a yellow blade as well. That Rey finishes her arc with a yellow lightsaber is noteworthy.
Following Palpatine's final defeat and her own resurrection, Rey adopts the name Rey Skywalker to honor her mentors and their family legacy and renounce her lineage. As the last remaining Jedi, she makes it her mission to rebuild the Jedi Order.
The Darksaber goes back to the time of Tarre Vizsla, the first Mandalorian to become a Jedi Knight. He created a one-of-a-kind lightsaber with a flat blade of dark, swirling energy. In the Star Wars Rebels episode “Trials of the Darksaber,” Fenn Rau shared more of the Mandalorian folklore surrounding the weapon.
She wielded it in defeating Kylo Ren, then brought it to Ahch-To and offered it back to Luke. When he refused it, Rey carried the ancient weapon herself. The lightsaber sheared apart when Rey and Kylo struggled for possession of it aboard the Supremacy, but Rey reforged it as she continued her Jedi training.
Luke Skywalker inherited his father's lightsaber from Obi-Wan Kenobi, who took the weapon after defeating Vader.
Apparently, George Lucas made the lightsaber green because it looked better against the blue-sky background. But it was more than just another lightsaber. Constructing it represented Luke's status as a Jedi, and even Darth Vader recognized the accomplishment.
Rey Skywalker
Her Force telekinesis outperformed many Jedi before her. And her power connected with Ben Solo/Kylo Ren to create a legendary Force Dyad. We only saw some of Rey's power, so with her, the sky is the limit.
The lightsaber's redesign was a byproduct of the bleeding process that damaged its kyber crystal, rendering it dangerously flawed and unstable, and necessitating the lateral vents were meant to prevent the cracked kyber crystal from overloading.
Lightsaber Colors Used to Matter
A brief who's who of users with blue lightsabers includes Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen, pre-youngling slayer), Shaak Ti, and Count Dooku (Christopher Lee, pre-dark side/ass handed to him by Yoda).
Luke's green lightsaber in Return of the Jedi is a new lightsaber he built for himself. It is a completely different lightsaber from Anakin's lightsaber, which Luke loses during his duel with Vader in Empire Strikes Back.
Leia's lightsaber was a blue-bladed lightsaber used by Princess Leia Organa during her time as a Jedi Padawan training under her brother Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker.
Gathering his strength, Kylo hurled his Sith lightsaber into the sea. Ben Solo had returned. Ben returned to Exegol, where Rey had confronted Palpatine. She gave him the Skywalker lightsaber, which he used to strike down the Knights of Ren.
Having refounded the Jedi Order and trained several new Jedi including Leia, Luke eventually marries an enemy-turned-ally Mara Jade, and they have a son named Ben, who was voted the 40th top Star Wars character by IGN and the 6th top Star Wars Expanded Universe character by UGO Networks.
In The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, art director Rick Carter expressed his opinion that Rey was the one who fulfilled the prophecy rather than Anakin, stating that while that one would be a Skywalker, it didn't necessarily need to be one by blood.
Ben Solo is the love of Rey's life. Initially unknown to Rey, she forms a dyad in the Force with Ben. The dyad is an unbreakable Force-bond that makes them one in the Force, despite being born as two physically separated individuals.