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We haven’t been given the full picture of Luke’s post-Return of the Jedi history yet. But we’ve been given some tantalizing clues thanks to The Last Jedi Visual Dictionary. (Thanks for my copy, DK Publishing!) (And in case you keep wondering why I’ve been saying that over and over again, apart from it being actual gratitude, it’s also for compliance with the FTC. 🙂 )
In fact, we may be able to safely break that thirty-year time period into thirds based on what we now know about his activities. Whether that’s an even three groups of ten years is still a mystery, but the book does potentially suggest that Luke and Ben may have parted ways years before Leia was aware of the schism.
I’m breaking down every new bit of knowledge we’ve got about Luke and his travels thanks to Pablo Hidalgo’s work on this latest Star Wars visual dictionary, as well as flagging one of the Legends of Luke Skywalker that’s been confirmed at a certain level thanks to the book, and digging deeper into the mystery of Force-sensitive uneti trees…