The Son 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. He acted as a physical embodiment of the dark side of the Force with his sister representing the light side. Balance was maintained between them by the Father until his failing health compelled him to search for a successor. He was voiced by Sam Witwer.
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. In the meantime, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka headed back to their shuttle, but found it to have mysteriously vanished. This was, in fact, the Son's doing, who was acting in accordance with his Father's plan to test Anakin and see if he was truly the Chosen One. The Son appeared before Kenobi and Tano, who drew their lightsabers, but the Son deactivated the weapons effortlessly. When Obi-Wan inquired if the Son was a Sith, the Force wielder replied that he was and was not. With a storm quickly approaching, the Son advised the two Jedi to find shelter before he transformed into his gargoyle form and flew away.
Later, after having introduced himself and his children as Force wielders, 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. Though Anakin and Obi-Wan pursued in their shuttle, the Son was able to evade them in a canyon of mist-shrouded spires. At the cathedral, he morphed into the form of a small alien creature that taunted the chained Ahsoka by claiming her master would never come back. When Tano insisted that Skywalker would come for her, the creature released her from her chains. After unsuccessfully trying to convince Tano to forget her master, the Son bit her on the arm, infecting Tano with the dark side of the Force. As Tano collapsed on the floor, the Son changed back to his humanoid form. Meanwhile, his Jedi pursuers split up. While Kenobi traveled back to the monastery to get help from the other Force-wielders, Skywalker decided to scale the tower and rescue Ahsoka. Later, the Son rejoined the Father and the Daughter at their monastery. When the Father implored the Son to let go of the dark side, the enraged Son struck him with Force lightning just as Kenobi and the Daughter entered the chamber. The Father was rendered unconscious by the Son's attack. Obi-Wan tried to convince the Daughter to put a stop to her brother, but she refused to harm him. However, the Daughter led Obi-Wan to the Dagger of Mortis, the only weapon capable of killing a Force wielder. Later, Obi-Wan and the Daughter would arrive at the Son's cathedral to support Anakin, who confronted the Son and a dark side-corrupted Ahsoka. 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 took the Dagger of Mortis from Obi-Wan and attempted to kill the Father with it. 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.
Anakin 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, Anakin 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 strong 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.