Eleven, Herr Kernal General Christi Von-

Christi Eleven in 1935

Christi Adolphus Eleven was born on August 15, 1892 in Dehrbahn, Achtungland in northern Deutscheslavania. His youth was spent in the turmoil of Achtungland at the turn of the century. His father, Adolphus Schmitt Eleven, was a radical secessionist who openly defied the Deutscheslavanian monarchy. In 1901 the Von Author monarchy sent Prince Jonas Hempstead Von Author to put down the uprising. Initially the people of Actungland resisted, but Prince Jonas made a deal that would grant Achtungland special status in return for local control.

The Prince, of course, reneged on the deal and arrested Adolphus Eleven and Katharina, Christi Eleven’s mother. The Elevens were eventually released under an act that forced them to denounce their property and serve as second-class citizens. This made conditions very harsh for the Eleven children, Christi, Sigmund, Maria and Leon.

Adolphus Eleven died in 1904, when Christi was twelve years old. Katharina worked in the Castle of the Schönberg family and Christi and Sigmund befriended the elderly Baron Schönberg. The Baron, who had no children of his own, adopted the four Eleven children and married Katharina. The Baron sponsored Christi, and later Sigmund, into the prestigious Dehrbahn Gesellschaft Deutcheslavanesche, a school of high learning for the aristocracy in 1907. There he was classically educated and began a fascination with military history.

Eleven decided on a military career when he was a child, winning a scholarship to the Deutscheslavanian Military Academy, Schloss Tomcovy, in 1911. By 1914 he had graduated 2nd in his class, one behind Prince Maximilian Von Arthor the heir apparent to the throne, and commissioned a Hauptmann (captain) in the Deutscheswehr as an infantry commander.

In 1919, when he was 27, the Third World Conflict broke out. There he showed extreme courage and valor on the battlefields in Dannunifius. At 28 years old, Christi Eleven became the youngest Kernal to ever command a Deutscheslavanian regiment. His meteoric rise shocked not only his countrymen but all of Delasia, and his military conquests threatened the stability of the Deutscheswehr High Command and he was sent to command an army in Dunnunder.

It was hoped that he would learn proper military protocol from the successful Feld-Marschall Helmut Kristen Von Jasenhaden. Eleven, while respecting Von Jasenhaden’s authority, won several successful victories against the well-documented Jamesterdavanian General MacDougan. These battles earned Eleven MacDougan’s respect, this greatly improved Christi Eleven’s position one Deutscheslavania surrendered in 1921.

Eleven’s post Third World Conflict years were challenging ones. In 1927, Eleven was promoted to the Feld-Marschall Grades and was recalled from Dununder to Tomcovy to serve as a military advisor to King Willhelm Von Arthor. Eleven displayed his contempt for the monarchy in his years in Dununder, but befriended the King.

Portrait of Christi Eleven (circa 1938) The peace treaty that ended the Third World Conflict was very harsh against Deutscheslavania and led to a period of economic depression. Additionally, the treaty limited Deutscheslavanian military strength. This compounded the problem, since historically, the poor were absorbed into the military. Through his military exploits and his ruthless efficiency, Eleven rose from obscurity to become the ruler of Deutscheslavania (Herr Kernal Feld-Marschall-Oberst). In his 40’s, Eleven persuaded the King to relinquish more and more authority to his political party, known as the Elevenists. The plan was to rearm Deutscheslavania and solve what Eleven referred to as “unsolved problems of the Third World Conflict.”

While in Dununder, Eleven read R.V. Lepercot’s Pax Oddeseana and began to devise his own interpretation of its meaning. The end of the Fourth World Conflict was a time of isolation and exile for the Old Herr Kernal. Forced to leave Deutscheslavania, he migrated to Dunudner and then Arrac, Felixland. There he would remain for a time and recapture, though fleeting, some glory as an elderly Felisorian Field Marshall in the last of the World Conflicts.

Exile in Dununder and Felixland- After the Fourth World Conflict, Citizen Christi Eleven was force into exile in Dununder and, much later, in Felixland. Given a token force of 100 men to command, these soldiers served primarily as guards. Eleven was charged with running a plantation in Eastern Dununder just east of the Celetree.

In 1953, while the Great Purges were killing of Elevenists in Deutscheslavania, Eleven found relative safety on these plantations. By 1955 the Eleven Plantation was seeing sizable returns and profits, this attracted the attention of the Tommie Government who sought to annex the plantations to their authority. The Tommie Guard showed up in June 1955 and attempted to arrest Eleven as a War Criminal. Eleven’s guards and the Tommies clashed with Eleven’s troops proving victorious. Eleven declared his plantation independent of the Deutscheslavanians and filed such a motion with the Jamsternational Court.

Eleven’s case when before them in Spring of 1956 and it was determined that the Eleven Plantation could become autonomous if it had a sponsor. The Celetree’s independent government, seeking another independent state in Dununder moved quickly to fill that role and the New Celetree was chartered on March 13, 1956. The land was surveyed and Eleven was elected the Governor of the new state.

Christi Eleven as a Felisorian Field Marshall (circa 1989) All went well until 1965 with the start of the Sixth World Conflict. Eleven attempted to remain neutral, but the invasion of his plantation by the Tommie Guard in April of that year spelled the end of New Celetree independence. When the Conflict was over in 1966, the New Celetree was entrusted to the protection of the Republic of Elix. Christi Eleven remained the governor of the New Celetree until it was recreated as Felisorian providence in 1975. This act is often referred to as the “Founding of the New Celetree.”

Christi Eleven initially did not get involved in Felisorian politics, but as the Axis Empire began to distinguish itself he found himself being pressured by hero-worshipping Axis generals to take stands of major issues. In 1977 General Felix Cheon Quinon, the leader of the Axis Empire, approached the aging Eleven to command a military school at Arrac. World leaders objected but the United Allies Council stated that Eleven was not actually in command of an army, but serving as a Commandant of an institute of learning.

Eleven would have this post until 1984. In his tenure as Commandant of Arrac Academy, Eleven redeveloped the curriculum of training and trained an elite Corps of officers that would form the backbone of the Axis Armies. This would give the Axis Empire a head start in the Eighth World Conflict. These officers would see their first action in 1989 with the Veravanian attack on Tomcovy. They preformed better than Eleven had expected.

In 1984 Christi Eleven was given the grade of Field Marshal and made military governor of Arrac. This was directly against the established code of 1947 and controversy rose form these actions. This however was overshadowed by the fall of the Tommie Party and reestablishment of the Von Arthor monarchy with the coronation of King Thomas Von Arthor Sealoske.

Five years later in 1989 Eleven would again make worldwide news as the defender of Arrac. During this conflict he only made one major offensive into Dannunifius on December 18, 1989 where he captured the coastal city Caboto. After this he retired to his headquarters in Arrac.

Eleven grew to love Arrac and, although willing to defend it at all costs, he surrendered Arrac to the Jamsterdavanian and Deutscheslavanian armies at the end of the Eighth World Conflict in 1993. It is said that, when presented with the news that the Deutscheslavanian and Jamsterdavanian armies were marshalling outside the city’s defenses, he look at his main officers, who had all been his students, and said:

“I cannot kill these who have been so loyal in this war that has been so foolish. Our cause was not a just one, a mistake of history has repeated itself and I am resigned to the fact that I have said nothing…done nothing…to prevent it. No my brave lieutenants our cause is lost. It will be you who will rebuild this country…starting here… finishing with you. Signal our capitulation… none shall die today!”

After the war Eleven was allowed to remain in his position at Arrac, but his health took a downward turn in his last years. He had gained the respect of the Felisorians and, upon his on February 3, 1996, he was given the honor be being entombed in the ancient Tufan Temple of Mari. His remains are on guard 24 hours a day and is visited my thousands a year.

Eleven's Legacy Eleven is both a historical figure and a legend—and it is sometimes difficult to separate the two. The events of his life fired the imaginations of great writers, film makers, and playwrights whose works have done much to create the Eleven Legend.

Christi Eleven was one of the greatest military commanders in history. He has also been portrayed as a power hungry conqueror. Christi Eleven denied being such a conqueror. He argued that he was building a federation of free peoples in an Oddesea united under a world government. But if this was his goal, he intended to achieve it by taking power in his own hands.


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