Ahsoka Tano's Lightsabers: Green, Blue and White Pairs Explained

The Ahsoka lightsaber is really two pairs. In current canon, Ahsoka Tano first carried a green single blade plus a shorter yellow-green shoto, and Anakin Skywalker later changed both blades to blue [1]. After the fall of the Jedi she built a second pair, two curved-hilt sabers with white blades [2]. This page follows both pairs through the shows, what each looks like and what became of them. The meaning of the white color has its own page, white lightsaber.

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Last checked: 2026-11-11.

Quick answers

• First pair: a green single blade and a yellow-green shoto, later blue [1].
• Second pair: white, one standard blade and one shoto, on curved hilts [2].
• Why she has two: she took up the two-blade style Jar’Kai during the Clone Wars [1].
• First pair, fate: left at a memorial for fallen clone troopers, and Darth Vader later took the primary saber [1].
• Second pair, fate: the shoto was cut in half and destroyed on Peridea, around 9 ABY [2].
• Legends: a green saber and a shoto only, with different details [3].

Ahsoka lightsaber colors at a glance

ABY and BBY are the calendar Star Wars stories use, counted after or before the Battle of Yavin. The colors change with the story, so a table helps.

The handbook cards for her sabers agree on the green original, the yellow-green shoto and the white pair, and say the exact shade of the shoto differs between sources [4][5]. Wookieepedia lists it as yellow-green too, so this page uses that.

The first pair, green and then blue

Wookieepedia says Ahsoka built her first saber as a Jedi youngling, using a kyber crystal she received on a Gathering to Ilum [1]. She brought it with her when she became Anakin Skywalker’s Padawan at Christophsis in the first year of the Clone Wars [1].

The hilt is described as cylindrical and straight, silver with black ornamentation [1]. The saber is a standard length with a green blade. She often wields it in an unusual reverse grip, and both sabers can work underwater, as shown at the Battle of Mon Cala [1]. The handbook card describes the same reverse hold as suited to a fast style [4].

Later in the war she decided to learn Jar’Kai, the two-saber style, and went back to Ilum for a second crystal. She built a shoto, a shorter saber, to match the first, and Wookieepedia says she got some training from Yoda [1]. If you want the single blade and the pair compared more generally, the double-bladed lightsaber page explains how two-saber and double-bladed weapons differ.

Why the blades turned blue

After Barriss Offee framed her for a bombing, Ahsoka left the Jedi Order and left her sabers with it [1]. Anakin took care of them in her absence, and Wookieepedia says he “improved” them, which changed the blades to blue [1]. He returned them before the Siege of Mandalore [1]. Anakin’s own sabers are on the Anakin Skywalker lightsaber page.

The blue blades are the one point where the sources disagree. The novel Ahsoka describes the blades as green in the flashback where she abandons them, while the episode “Old Friends Not Forgotten” shows blue, and later editions of the novel were changed to match the show [1]. For the color itself, see green lightsaber and blue lightsaber.

What happened to the first pair

Wookieepedia says Ahsoka left both sabers behind after Order 66 to fake her death. She and Captain Rex built graves for fallen clones on the moon where their ship crashed, and she placed the sabers there [1]. The episode “Victory and Death” shows only the primary saber being left, though the official Databank entry says both were abandoned [1].

Years later, Darth Vader visited the crash site, which was buried in snow by then. He found the saber heavily corroded but still working, and took it [1]. Wookieepedia does not say what he did with it afterward. That connects to the Darth Vader lightsaber page, which covers his own sabers.

The white pair

About a year after the end of the Clone Wars, Ahsoka was on the moon Raada when she killed the Inquisitor known as the Sixth Brother [2]. Wookieepedia says she took the two kyber crystals from his double-bladed saber, purified them of the dark side, and the crystals turned from red to white [2]. The reason for the color is covered on the white lightsaber page, and the general story of crystals is on kyber crystals.

Other outlets name the Inquisitor differently. Nerdist’s explainer says Seventh Brother, and Dork Side of the Force only says an Inquisitor [6][7]. Wookieepedia says Sixth Brother and gives a full account of the Raada fight, so this page follows it [2].

The white hilts

The first white hilts were rough. Wookieepedia says Ahsoka assembled them quickly from scrap metal and a few specialized parts from the Inquisitor’s saber, in the middle of a battle [2]. Over the following years she rebuilt them with curved, rectangular hilts that were more functional and more decorative [2]. As before, one is a standard saber and one is a shoto.

The handbook card for the white pair says long hilts with black trim and a reverse grip, and was marked as unverified [5]. The wiki account of the curved, rectangular hilt is more specific. Treat the card as a placeholder and the wiki as the main source.

Where the white sabers appear

The white pair first appears in the Star Wars Rebels season one finale, “Fire Across the Galaxy” [2]. After that she carries them in The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett and the Ahsoka series [2]. Wookieepedia’s list also holds comics, novels and games that this page does not go through [2]. A film and show list is on every lightsaber by film.

Behind the scenes, Wookieepedia reports that Dave Filoni, one of the show’s creators, said the blades are white to reflect her non-affiliation with the Jedi or the Sith [2]. For The Mandalorian, the props kept growing as the crew packed batteries and receivers into them, so the sabers ended up powered by an external battery instead [2].

What happened to the white pair

In the Ahsoka series, the shoto is sliced in half and destroyed while she fights Morgan Elsbeth on Peridea [2]. Wookieepedia dates this to around 9 ABY. The main saber is still in use at the end of the page, and the article does not describe its later fate [2].

Ahsoka’s lightsabers in Legends

Wookieepedia keeps a separate Legends article for her Clone Wars sabers [3]. It describes a green single blade built under the guidance of the droid Huyang, with an Adegan crystal, and a yellowish-green shoto added later [3]. It lists the sabers with a cylindrical, straight hilt and notes that she used Forms IV and V, with the reverse Shien-style grip [3].

The Legends article says she lost both sabers around 20 BBY, dropping the shoto after a rocket blast and the main one while dueling Barriss Offee on Coruscant, then leaving the Order without them [3]. It does not cover a blue pair or a white pair. The page itself is flagged as having a conjectural title and as needing sources, so it is thin [3].

Where to look next

For two-saber fighting as a style, see lightsaber forms. If you want a replica of one of these sabers, start with the general lightsaber replica guide. I did not confirm any specific Ahsoka replica or its price this session, so none is listed here.

Sources

1. Wookieepedia, Ahsoka Tano’s lightsabers (canon), https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Ahsoka_Tano%27s_lightsabers (read through the public API, accessed 2026-11-11)
2. Wookieepedia, Ahsoka Tano’s white lightsabers, https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Ahsoka_Tano%27s_white_lightsabers (accessed 2026-11-11)
3. Wookieepedia, Ahsoka Tano’s lightsabers (Legends), https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Ahsoka_Tano%27s_lightsabers/Legends (accessed 2026-11-11)
4. Handbook card handbook/sabers/ahsoka-tano-green.md (verified 2026-11-01 per its header for the green color, the shoto and first appearance)
5. Handbook card handbook/sabers/ahsoka-tano-white.md (marked not verified in its header)
6. Nerdist, The History and Evolution of Ahsoka Tano’s Lightsabers, https://nerdist.com/article/history-and-evolution-of-ahsoka-tano-lightsabers-how-many-lightsabers-ahsoka-has-had/ (accessed 2026-11-11)
7. Dork Side of the Force, Why does Ahsoka Tano have two white lightsabers, https://dorksideoftheforce.com/2023/08/15/why-does-ahsoka-tano-have-two-white-lightsabers/ (accessed 2026-11-11)