River of Light

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"I found it years ago. When I was no older than you are now. I found it in the River of Light on my home planet."

―Qui-Gon Jinn, handing Obi-Wan Kenobi a stone from the River of Light^[1]

The River of Light was located on the homeworld of Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. While there, a thirteen-year-old Jinn obtained a Force-sensitive stone that he kept as a memento for over three decades.^[1] In 44 BBY,^[2] he gave the stone to his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi as a gift for his thirteenth birthday.^[1] Kenobi in turn gave the same stone to his apprentice Anakin Skywalker when he turned thirteen^[3] in 28 BBY.^[4] Knowledge of the Force-sensitive river stones' existence survived into the days of the New Jedi Order;^[5] following the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War in 29 ABY,^[6] Jedi Knight Tam Azur-Jamin mentioned them in Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena, an essay discussing the emergence of the Force in inanimate objects and technological devices.^[5]

Behind the scenes

Created by author Jude Watson, the River of Light was first mentioned in The Hidden Past (1999), the third installment in the Jedi Apprentice series of young reader novels.^[1] Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena, a 2005 Hyperspace-exclusive article by Abel G. Peña, mentions the Force being found in "lifeless rocks like river stones."^[5] In the article endnotes published at his StarWars.com blog, Peña specified that this was meant as a reference to the stones found on Qui-Gon Jinn's homeworld,^[7] thus making the article's reference to "river" an indirect mention of the River of Light.