The Father was a mysterious being that appeared in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, during the third season's Mortis arc. He was a powerful Force wielder who resided in the realm of Mortis. His children, the Daughter and the Son, represented the light side and the dark side of the Force, respectively. Balance was maintained between them by the Father until his failing health compelled him to search for a successor. He was voiced by Lloyd Sherr.
History[]
For an untold period of time, perhaps even since the beginning of the universe, the Father and his children existed within the ethereal realm on a planetoid known as Mortis. These familial beings were born of the Force, the mystical energy that binds all things in the galaxy together. The Daughter represented the light side of the Force while the Son was of the dark side, with their Father acting to maintain balance between the two in order to protect the galaxy from their immense power.
By the time of the Clone Wars, the Father's health was deteriorating, and so he sought to find a being capable of replacing him. Sensing the existence of the prophecized "Chosen One" who would bring balance to the Force, the Father sent out an ancient Jedi distress code in order to bring the Chosen One to him. The Jedi Order sent Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano to investigate the signal, which was emanating from the Chrelythiumn system in Wild Space. They initially found nothing there, but their ship was soon enveloped by an all-encompassing light and the Jedi were rendered unconscious. When they awoke, they found that they had landed on a strange planet where the seasons changed with the time of day.
The trio were soon greeted by the Daughter who offered to lead them to her Father, but they were accosted by the Son along the way. While the Daughter and the Jedi visitors were unhurt, the travelers were separated, leaving only Anakin to follow the Daughter to the Mortis monastery. They arrived by nightfall where the Father offered a bed for Anakin to rest. As Anakin slept, the Son came to him, taking on the form of his late mother, Shmi, and tormenting him. When he awoke, Anakin confronted the Father, suspecting him to be a Sith lord.
The Father then introduced himself and his children as Force wielders. After relating the history of his family, the Father told Anakin that he and his friends were free to leave Mortis once he had undergone a test. This test was intended to determine whether Skywalker was indeed the Chosen One and to force him to confront his own guilt. The following morning, the test took place in the courtyard of the Mortis monastery. The Son and Daughter had transformed into their bestial forms and kidnapped both Tano and Kenobi. As part of the test, Anakin was forced to choose whom he would save. Anakin passed the test by using the planet's Force-amplifying properties to force the Son and the Daughter to release their captives and revert to their humanoid forms. The Father congratulated Anakin for passing the test but told him that he still had to learn about the true nature within himself. The Father then asked Anakin to take his place as the balancing force between his two children. He also warned the Jedi Knight that if he chose to leave, he would endanger the galaxy with his selfishness. Unwilling to abandon his Jedi comrades, a conflicted Anakin decided to leave with Kenobi and Ahsoka on their ship.
Before Anakin and his Jedi comrades could leave Mortis on their ship, they were once more attacked by the Son, who kidnapped Ahsoka and brought her to his cathedral. Obi-Wan recommended that they consult the Father for help, but Anakin was determined to rescue his Padawan and headed to the Son's cathedral. Later, the Father confronted the Son at the Mortis monastery and implored him to let go of the dark side. The Son lost his temper and blasted the Father with Force lightning just as Kenobi arrived within the monastery.
The Father was rendered unconscious by the Son's attack. In his absence, the Daughter managed to convince Obi-Wan to retrieve the Dagger of Mortis from the altar in order to stop the Son from escaping offworld to wreak havoc on the galaxy. Anakin, Obi-Wan, and the Daughter confronted the Son and a dark side-corrupted Ahsoka at the Son's cathedral. The Father eventually recovered from his unconsciousness and tried to put a stop to the fighting between his children. However, the Father proved no match for the Son due to his weakened state. During the struggle, the Son attempted to kill the Father with the Dagger of Mortis. However, the Daughter intercepted the blade and was mortally wounded. Grief-stricken by the death of his sister, the Son fled the scene. As the Daughter died, the balance of the Force on Mortis was upset and the planet descended into darkness. In her dying moments, the Daughter used her remaining Force powers to cleanse Ahsoka of her dark taint and to revive her from the dead. Fearing that the imbalance on Mortis would cause the Sith and dark side to gain the upper hand in the galaxy, the grieving Father implored the Jedi to leave before the Son could use their ship to escape offworld. As the Jedi left, the Father mourned his Daughter's death. After mourning the Daughter, the Father buried her in a crypt with the Dagger of Mortis. He was soon joined by Anakin, who had come to seek his help in stopping the Son. Skywalker feared that the Son could not be imprisoned on Mortis forever. While the Father was determined to eliminate his Son before he could endanger the galaxy, he refused to accept Skywalker's help because he feared that the Son could use the young Jedi Knight's powers to tilt the balance of the Force and wreak havoc in the galaxy. The Father added that their fates were now in the hands of the Force and implored him to search himself for the answers needed to stop the Son.
Despite the Father's warning, Anakin was seduced by the Son in the Well of the Dark Side. The Son convinced him that he could embrace the dark side in order to avert terrible visions of the future including the Great Jedi Purge and the rise of the Galactic Empire. Under the Son's influence, Skywalker trapped Obi-Wan in the Well and then attempted to reach his starship. Kenobi however managed to contact Ahsoka and convince her to disable the ship's power systems, sabotaging the Son's plans.
The Father then confronted Anakin outside his starship. After Skywalker voiced his fear that he would bring great suffering in the future, the Father used his Force powers to erase Anakin's recent memory and to drive the dark side from him. The Father and the three Jedi visitors then confronted the Son at the Mortis monastery. The Father implored his Son to give up his plans but he refused. A skirmish soon broke out and the Son's powers proved too powerful for even the combined might of the Father and the Jedi. In order to strip the Son of his Force powers, the Father sacrificed his own life by stabbing himself with the Dagger of Mortis. Shaken by remorse, the Son came to his senses and made peace with the Father shortly before he was impaled by Anakin's lightsaber. With his dying breath, Father proclaimed that Anakin was the Chosen One for restoring balance to Mortis. The Father also prophesied that Anakin would bring back balance to the Force in the wider galaxy but warned the Jedi to beware of his inner self lest he bring doom to the galaxy. The Father's body then vanished, leading to the disappearance of Mortis.