Christèmas Godfather Christèmas was the infamous leader and curator of the Bankside division of Faction Paradox . Within the Parliament of the Eleven - Day Empire , Christèmas held the office of Aquister Primate . Christèmas was a rude and vulgar man , nothing like the legendary holiday character inspired by him . Christèmas was a large hairless man . He often dressed in red Catholic Cardinal robes . His ceremonial mask was made from a narwhal skull . Biography . Early activity with the Faction . Within Faction Paradox , Christèmas attained the rank of " Father " . Christèmas once had a mission involving the early 17th century which had him making a deal with Ben Jonson . Things didn ' t go well and Jonson later mocked Christèmas by writing " Christmas , His Masque " , creating the jolly character of Father Christmas . He attained the office of Aquistor Primate within the Parliament of the Eleven - Day Empire . ( PROSE : " Weapons Grade Snake Oil " ) Founding Bankside . As Aquistor Primate , Father Christèmas founded Bankside at the edge of the Eleven - Day Empire to store his acquisitions . This was done without permission from the Parliament , but the Parliament later came to support it after Christèmas argued that his acquisitions were less of a danger stored in Bankside . However , the Ministry of Insinuation were angered by Bankside and disliked Christèmas from that point forward . Christèmas found two individuals to help him at Bankside : first Haribeaux , a prisoner Christèmas had released from the Boulevard of Alternate Brutalities ; then Chantelle , a 21st century drug dealer encountered by Christèmas and Haribeaux . Ceol heard about Christèmas and Bankside during her time with Faction Paradox . ( PROSE : " Weapons Grade Snake Oil " ) Becoming independent . Christèmas set into motion a complicated plan to make Bankside independent from the Eleven - Day Empire by creating his own Loa . Firstly , Christèmas sent a memo to the Faction detailing a made - up failure to obtain praxis from the Pilots ' Coterie which resulted in Haribeaux having to make his own Blue Praxis . This attracted the attention of Antigone and Rupert from the Ministry of Insinuation , who came to Bankside hoping to shut it down over the Praxis experiments . Christèmas distracted Antigone and Rupert while Chantelle reached out to Sojourner Hooper - Agogô . After Chantelle returned to Bankside and Antigone left , Christèmas directed Rupert to Haribeaux and then went to the Kraken with Chantelle to approach Anne Bonny and get her and the Hussar to participate in her scheme . In secret , Christèmas also recruited the Kraken to his side during this visit . Christèmas , Chantelle , Bonny , and the Hussar came to Sojourner ' s room on " The Felicitation " to acquaint themselves with each other and discuss what exactly they would be doing . Christèmas lied to them , explaining that they would be breaking into the axiomatic vault of Serendipity Keep to steal the 2nd Second . Christèmas and the Hussar stayed behind in the Kraken and observed as the others got themselves into Serendipity Keep . The Hussar attempted to betray Christèmas during this time and take over the operation , but the Kraken was loyal to Christèmas and it killed the Hussar . Christèmas returned to Bankside with one of the Hussar ' s hearts while the Kraken took the rest of the corpse to the axiomatic vault . Christèmas used the heart to conduct a ritual to converse with the loa of the Eleven - Day Empire , preparing them for the new loa which was being created at that time in the axiomatic vault . The Kraken came to Bankside with Chantelle , Bonny , and the baby loa . Christèmas announced to Antigone that Bankside was using the loa to become independent from the Empire and mocked her . He facilitated the initiation / promotion of everyone who had helped him create the loa and had himself promoted to the rank of " Godfather " . Chris had a party in Bankside with Chantelle , Bonny , Haribeaux , and the Kraken . ( PROSE : " Weapons Grade Snake Oil " )