@shootingnova: Obviously, Palpatine has better demonstrated feats, but that may not really matter. The Son, and the Ones in general, are supposed to be manifestations of the Force. Their general apotheosis elevates them above any standard Force sensitives.
"As my son has descended into the Dark Side, so have the Sith gained strength."
Source: Altar of Mortis
So that implies the Son isn't the Dark Side itself, and the Father later mentions that he knew there was good in his Son, and all that.
That said, I now think the Son wins. The Father could hide the Jedi's ship from their Star Destroyer, despite the fact that they were on the exact same co-ordinates. He has also erased Anakin's memories, extended wings to fly, thrown both the Daughter and Son out the window (when they were distracted), held lightsaber blades by his hand, forced lightsaber blades into their hilts by touching them, and so forth all even when he was beyond his prime - and yet the Son overpowered him. It could be an issue of the Son's hate and the Father's love for his son, but....
Also, I think it was said that Abeloth overpowered both the Son and the Daughter, and the Father (likely in his prime) rescued them and stranded Abeloth on that planet. It's implied he defeated Abeloth.
Fair enough.
Regarding differing interpretations on the Mortis trilogy, the Star Wars website's episode overviews for TCW (which are no longer there but can be found in archives) said in the Overlords summary that it was the design TCW's creative staff to leave the Mortis trilogy open to interpretation. The Essential Guide to Warfare also seemed to try to reconcile the original ambiguity of the Mortis trilogy presented in TCW, Book of Sith, and even Darth Plagueis in its veiled references to the Ones with FotJ's very literal, concrete interpretation of it by a passage from Arden Lyn where she recounted Xendor's supposed experience on Mortis. He basically takes an inclusivist approach to FotJ's interpretation by saying that nothing really changes whether the Ones were literally real or not and that everyone has their own theories regarding the Force.
Xendor told me he once journeyed to a dead world where the Force was worshiped as a triad of divine beings. The Daughter was the Light Side. The Son was the Dark Side. And the Father? The Father was the Force itself, perhaps. Xendor said he spoke with these beings, and I asked eagerly what he had discovered. He laughed at me, and dismissed the question.
"Even now, you refuse to understand," he told me. "There are as many truths to the Force as there are hearts within which the Force manifests itself. The existence of the triad has no more bearing on the reality of the Force than the Ashla and the Bogan, or anything I tell you, or anything you tell others. Any philosophy, creed, or religion that opens the heart to the Force proves itself to be true. But that is only a demonstration of the application of power, Arden. It says nothing about the rightness of our beliefs, or the universality of our faith."
--Taken from The Essential Guide to Warfare
Obviously, Xendor is wrong, as while there are ambiguities, not every religion or cult surrounding beliefs in the Force are correct.
@deathstroke19: I'd rather a novel that recounted the lives of the Ones - or at least a novelization of the Mortis trilogy in TCW, OR a novel about Abeloth and the Ones.
I would prefer nothing be written about them at all and leave the Legend of Mortis a legend. This was one of my major gripes with FotJ; it took too dogmatic an interpretation on the Mortis trilogy, not to mention its interpretation really didn't make any sense.
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