General Grievous Lightsabers: Trophies, Four Arms, Canon and Legends
General Grievous owns no lightsaber of his own design. He collects the sabers of Jedi he kills, mostly blue and green, and splits his arms into four to use them together. This reference covers the trophy room, the named blades, the Utapau duel, the four arm fighting style, and where canon and Legends disagree.
Short answer
General Grievous owns no lightsaber of his own design. He collects the sabers of Jedi he kills, mostly blue and green, and splits his arms into four to use them together. This reference covers the trophy room, the named blades, the Utapau duel, the four arm fighting style, and where canon and Legends disagree.
On this page11 sections
- Quick answers
- Why Grievous collects lightsabers
- Which General Grievous lightsabers are named
- The Utapau duel with four sabers
- How four arms change the fighting style
- Whom the stolen sabers were used against
- Canon and Legends
- What the collection tells you about numbers
- Collecting and replicas
- Sources
- Questions
General Grievous lightsabers are not a set he built. He takes them from Jedi he has killed, which are mostly blue and green blades, and his cybernetic arms split so he can fight with four at once [1]. In canon he keeps a trophy room and carries several sabers in his cape, while Legends tells the story of his first saber differently [1][3][4]. This page lists the named blades, the Utapau duel, the four arm style, and what changes between canon and Legends. For the Jedi who trained him, see the Count Dooku lightsaber page.
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Last checked: 2026-11-11.
Quick answers
- Whose sabers: stolen from dead Jedi, so there is no single Grievous saber [1].
- Colours: blue and green, never red, because he cannot bleed a kyber crystal [1].
- How many at once: four, held in two arms that split into four [1].
- How many in total: nearly a hundred by the end of the Clone Wars, in canon [1].
- First saber: given to him by Dooku; the owner differs between canon and Legends [3][4].
Why Grievous collects lightsabers
Wookieepedia says Grievous made a habit of claiming the sabers of defeated Jedi as trophies and as weapons to use on the next opponent [1]. The habit predates the Jedi. He collected weapons as trophies when he was a warlord on Kalee [1]. He kept a trophy room in a hidden lair, and carried stolen sabers in his cape or at his waist to frighten opponents [1]. The same entry says he took Padawan braids from those struck down before they became Knights [1].
Grievous is not Force sensitive, so he cannot bleed a kyber crystal the way a Sith does [1]. That is why the stolen blades keep the colours their Jedi owners chose, and why you see blue and green rather than red [1]. The kyber crystals page explains where those colours come from, and the red lightsaber page covers what bleeding means.
Which General Grievous lightsabers are named
Wookieepedia calls the sabers of Pablo-Jill, Eeth Koth, Roron Corobb and Shaak Ti his greatest prizes [1]. It also names other Jedi whose sabers he held, for shorter or longer. Colours below are the ones the cited pages give. Where a page gives no colour, the table says so.
| Saber | Colour | How Grievous got it | What happened to it | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The first saber, from an old Jedi | Not stated | Given to him by Dooku | Added to the collection as it grew | [3] |
| Shaak Ti’s | Blue | Taken after he shocked her unconscious on Coruscant | Lost on Utapau when Obi-Wan cut off the hand that held it | [5] |
| Roron Corobb’s | Green | Taken after Corobb died on Coruscant | Held by Grievous; the page gives no later fate | [6] |
| Pablo-Jill’s | Blue | Taken after a duel over Duro | Listed among his prizes | [1] |
| Jmmaar’s | Green | Taken after he killed the Jedi Master | Added to the collection | [1] |
| Nahdar Vebb’s | Blue | Taken after he killed Vebb on Vassek 3 | Kit Fisto cut off the hand holding it and took it back | [7] |
| Neebo’s | Not stated | Found among the trophies in his lair | Her fate is only implied by the find | [1] |
Eeth Koth’s saber is on the prize list too, but I found no colour for it on the pages I read [1].
The Looper site says the four blades Grievous uses against Obi-Wan are Shaak Ti’s and Pablo-Jill’s (blue) and Eeth Koth’s and Roron Corobb’s (green) [8]. Wookieepedia agrees on Shaak Ti’s, which it lists as one of his four main weapons in that duel [5]. I did not find a second source that names the other three for the film itself. The article also argues that the hilts on screen look like those of other Jedi, and puts that down to reused digital assets [8]. That is the author’s view, not something Lucasfilm states.
The Utapau duel with four sabers
The Utapau fight in Revenge of the Sith is where most people see the collection at work. Earlier, aboard his flagship, Grievous takes Anakin’s and Obi-Wan’s sabers and sweeps his cape back to show the others hanging in its lining [1]. He boasts that theirs will join them [1]. The two Jedi get them back.
On Utapau, Wookieepedia describes him spinning two sabers overhead while dragging the other two along the ground [1]. Obi-Wan breaks into that pattern, then targets the wrists. He cuts off a hand together with Shaak Ti’s saber, then another hand and another saber [1]. A Force push later knocks the remaining blades out of Grievous’s hands [1]. Obi-Wan finally kills him with Grievous’s own blaster, fired into his exposed gut-sack [1].
There is also a production reason the four arm attack is brief. Wookieepedia says filming all four hands at once was hard for the crew, so it was decided that Grievous should lose several hands quickly [1]. Grievous has about six minutes of screen time in the film [1]. For the wider story of every blade in the film, see every lightsaber by film.
How four arms change the fighting style
Wookieepedia says Grievous specialised in the form known as Jar’Kai, and that his extra limbs let him wield four lightsabers in his own variation [1]. Dooku trained him, and his approach rested on fear, surprise and intimidation [1]. His arms can also spin the blades fast enough to make a moving shield, and he can deflect blaster bolts with them [1]. He used a blaster in the same fight at close range [1].
Forms in general are explained on the lightsaber forms page. For the real life version of fast blade handling, see lightsaber spinning and flourishes. One caution: four lightsabers at once is a screen idea. A real hilt is one blade, and the double bladed lightsaber page covers the nearest practical thing.
Whom the stolen sabers were used against
Wookieepedia lists a long run of Jedi that Grievous fought with them. Obi-Wan was the most persistent rival and beat him in the end [1]. On the other side, he overpowered Ahsoka Tano in their first meeting and again on Florrum [1]. He fought Kit Fisto, losing a hand in the process, before his MagnaGuards joined in [1]. He crossed blades with Yoda, and held his own until reinforcements came [1]. He also fought Maul twice, and both duels ended in stalemates [1]. For those sabers, see the Obi-Wan Kenobi lightsaber, Kit Fisto lightsaber, Ahsoka Tano lightsabers, Yoda lightsaber and Darth Maul lightsaber pages. He fought Asajj Ventress as well, and her blades are on the Asajj Ventress lightsabers page.
Canon and Legends
Canon is the continuity Lucasfilm treats as current. Legends is the label for the licensed stories that came before the April 2014 reset. Grievous exists in both, and the saber stories differ.
In canon, Revenge of the Sith is his first appearance [1]. Wookieepedia says his first saber came from an old Jedi, through Dooku, and that it first turned up in a 2016 magazine [3]. In Legends, the first saber was a blue blade with an Adegan crystal that had belonged to Sifo-Dyas, and Dooku gave it to him as a reward [4]. The Legends page says Grievous then killed his MagnaGuards in a rage and declared himself General Grievous [4].
The Legends collection is also bigger in detail. Wookieepedia says his collection included sabers of at least five beings he did not personally kill, among them K’Kruhk, Sifo-Dyas and Darth Zannah [2]. It says he took K’Kruhk’s saber on Hypori [2]. It also says the Dark Jedi Kaa and Lii stole his collection of Sith lightsabers, and that those blades landed in an acid lake on Dica, after which he resolved to restart the collection with Jedi sabers [2]. None of that is canon.
The 2003 animated Clone Wars series, where Grievous was introduced, is now Legends too, while the 2008 series is canon [1]. The site’s own handbook card for him lists the 2003 series next to the 2008 one without that split, and its header says it was never checked against a source, so treat the card as unreliable (handbook/sabers/general-grievous-collection.md) [10].
What the collection tells you about numbers
A fair question is how many sabers he really had. Wookieepedia says nearly a hundred by the end of the Clone Wars [1]. A retailer blog gives three different figures in one article, from over a hundred to several hundred, and cites nothing [9]. The safe reading is that the number is a loose estimate, and that only a handful of blades are named in stories.
Collecting and replicas
Replicas of single Jedi hilts exist. If you want a licensed one, see lightsaber replica. This page does not rate any, and I did not verify a Grievous specific product or its price.
Sources
- Wookieepedia, Grievous (canon), https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Grievous (read through the public API, accessed 2026-11-11)
- Wookieepedia, Grievous (Legends), https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Grievous/Legends (accessed 2026-11-11)
- Wookieepedia, Grievous’ first lightsaber (canon), https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Grievous%27_first_lightsaber (accessed 2026-11-11)
- Wookieepedia, Grievous’ first lightsaber (Legends), https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Grievous%27_first_lightsaber/Legends (accessed 2026-11-11)
- Wookieepedia, Shaak Ti’s lightsaber, https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Shaak_Ti%27s_lightsaber (accessed 2026-11-11)
- Wookieepedia, Roron Corobb’s lightsaber, https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Roron_Corobb%27s_lightsaber (accessed 2026-11-11)
- Wookieepedia, Nahdar Vebb’s lightsaber, https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Nahdar_Vebb%27s_lightsaber (accessed 2026-11-11)
- Looper, Whose Lightsabers Did General Grievous Use Against Obi-Wan Kenobi, https://looper.com/1504097/star-wars-lightsabers-general-grievous-uses-against-obi-wan-kenobi (accessed 2026-11-11)
- Ultrasabers, How Many Lightsabers Does General Grievous Have, https://ultrasabers.com/?p=2851118 (accessed 2026-11-11)
- Handbook card handbook/sabers/general-grievous-collection.md (marked unverified in its own header)
FAQ
How many lightsabers does General Grievous have?
Wookieepedia says nearly a hundred by the end of the Clone Wars, in canon [1]. He uses four at a time [1].
What colour are General Grievous’s lightsabers?
Blue and green, the colours of the Jedi he took them from [1]. He cannot bleed a crystal, so none are red [1]. See blue lightsaber and green lightsaber.
Whose lightsabers did Grievous use against Obi-Wan?
Shaak Ti’s was one of the four [5]. One outlet names Pablo-Jill’s, Eeth Koth’s and Roron Corobb’s as the others [8].
Who gave Grievous his first lightsaber?
Dooku did [3][4]. Canon does not name the Jedi who owned it, while Legends says it was Sifo-Dyas’s [3][4].
Does Grievous use four lightsabers at once in Revenge of the Sith?
Yes, briefly. He spins two overhead and drags two, then loses hands to Obi-Wan [1].
Is the Grievous lightsaber story the same in canon and Legends?
No. Legends adds Sifo-Dyas’s saber, Hypori, and the Dica acid lake [2][4].
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