#force wound

Anakin was still alive in Obi-Wan’s mind.  Obi-Wan was engaged with him so intensely that he expected his apprentice to walk over one of those shifting sand dunes and grin at him again.  Or scowl. He’d take anything. Any mood, any defiance.  Just to see him again.

Dove: .... Ah... I don't know how to respond to that!

So let’s sort through this real quick: With all the stuff being spread around you’ve probably already heard about the World Between Worlds but essentially it’s a subplanar space connecting different Vergences in the Force. A Vergence isn’t really a particular thing, it’s essentially a name for any Force phenomenon that concentrates the living Force somewhere in unusual amounts.  When Qui Gon calls Anakin a Vergence in Phantom Menace he isn’t saying that a Vergence is its own particular thing, he’s assigning a broad identifier.  As we know now, Anakin’s Vergence was him being conceived in/by the Force.  A lot of the material I’ve seen for WBW so far discounts this completely and acts like a Vergence is its own independent phenomena, which it’s not.  When the WBW connects Vergences the Vergences themselves can be a number of things, and one of those things is a Force Wound. A Force Wound is created by something truly terrible happening, usually a great loss of life.  The Alderanian Asteroid Field, which we know to be the remains of the planet Alderan after Vader destroyed it, is the site of a Force Wound.  Dagobah is also the site of a Force Wound, and that Force Wound is the Vergence on Dagobah.  It is also possible for a Force Wound to exist in a person, as with other kinds of Vergences.  One of the ways this can happen is to destroy a particularly powerful Force bond. When DLF says ‘there’s a Vergence on Exegol’, which they have, we still don’t know what kind.  Given how strongly Exegol is linked to the Dark side it may be a Cave of Mirrors-type phenomena, where a particular portion or alignment of the Force is centered somewhere in a way we don’t really know much about.  HOWEVER, it is now possible that there’s an additional, secondary, or heightened Vergence on Exegol; a Force Wound caused by the destruction of a dyad bond.  Equally possible is that Rey has a Force Wound herself, though that seems unlikely, since Rey seems fine at the end of TROS and having a Force Wound would either drive her mad, turn her Dark, or make her cut herself off from the Force instinctively just to survive.  But if Ben’s death created a new Vergence, that itself might be the link to the WBW that would allow him to survive.

She's not a "grey Jedi," and she isn't trying to teach you the importance of balance between the Light side and the Dark side.  She is literally the anti-thesis of the Force; she doesn't care about keeping balance between the two sides, she spends the whole game trying to get you to understand that her point of view is that the Force itself is an abomination that should be killed.