Rhindon Sword

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.

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.

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, in 4 ABY, 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.

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.

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