‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ Finale Finally Showcases How Sith Lightsabers Are Actually Made

‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ recently released the final episode of the first season. Despite the show having an overall slow run with plenty of pacing issues, the show did deliver some highly exciting cameos and cleared up some details that fans wanted to see on-screen for ages.

One of those details is the bleeding of Kyber crystals, and it’s by far one of the coolest scenes in the final episode, showcasing exactly what it takes to torture the source of power of the lightsaber.

During the final episode, we see Osha and Qimir racing to Brendok in order to stop Mae from killing Master Sol, in a somewhat predictable scenario, Mae reveals that she wasn’t directly to blame for the death of their mother, it was Master Sol all along.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions and Master Sol realizes this all too well when he is forced to face Osha with all the heaviness regarding what he has done over 16 years ago. Osha, overcome with grief, anger, and madness starts force-choking him. After Sol lies on the ground, dead she picks up his lightsaber and bleeds the Kyber Crystal, turning the lightsaber red, the only color associated with the Dark Side of the Force.

There’s a good reason why Sith lightsabers are traditionally red. All naturally found Kyber crystals are aligned with the light side of the force, to turn the lightsaber red you need to “bleed” the crystal. The process of bleeding the crystal can be conscious (as with Kylo Ren for example) or spontaneous (like we’ve seen with Osha). It involves pouring all emotions associated with the Dark Side into the crystal, corrupting it.

When Osha picked up what was once a blue lightsaber she poured all her grief, anger, hate, sadness, and agony into the crystal, instantly bleeding it and turning the lightsaber into a Sith weapon.

The process can be reversed however, that is something that Ashoka famously did when she acquired her white lightsabers. Kyber crystals are however notoriously “hard to crack” even when being bled, they resist. This is what resulted in Kylo Ren’s crossguard lightsaber, a mechanic he needed to utilize in order to vent the excess energy that followed when his Kyber crystal cracked in the process of bleeding.

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