Second son of Sigmund Eisenfaust, it fell to Xanatov to take charge of the family's interstellar trade interests, while his elder brother Godfry trained as successor to the family's political dynasty and business manufacturing military technology and his younger brother Volker entered the officer's academy in preparation to assume command of the family legions.<br/><br/>Xanatov was intelligent, and usually paid attention to his tutors.  His greatest interests as a young man were swords and women--though not usually in that order.  Early in life he began parroting family rivalries before fully understanding them.  Receiving a proper education in such intrigues only made him so much the wiser in this regard.<br/><br/>Sigmund had placed his wife Aoifi in charge of easing tensions with a rival house--   .  Only understanding that the House were politicol and ecenomic enemies but civil behavior prevented open war, Xanatov hatched a grand scheme to snub his nose at them royaly.  ___, heir to the house, was soon to be wed to a seventeen year old maiden named Elswith--a legendary beauty with hair spun of silken sunlight ands skin like cream.  Xanatov spent several weeks wooing her, making her doubt her ability to resist him and stay faithful to her fiance.  Three nights before the wedding, Xanatov pulled Elswyth into a secret chamber and ravished her.  The poor virgin screamed his name in eccstacy from midnight to dawn, and Xanatov slipped away through anchieent passageways before they could find him.<br/><br/>(Naturaly the beggar who'd show him the secret passages had to be silenced.  The poor sod was a degenrate mutant anyway.)<br/><br/>In order to duck some of the fallout, Xanatov was sent to the family's legion for the next three years.  He spent them exploring the arts of war with his uncle and the arts of bondage with his cousin Ivana.  At age 22, Xanatov spent two years serving as his uncle    's first officer to get solid experience as a Rogue Trader.  During this time, they suffered a horrible assault from an alliance of space pirates in the pay of    .  Together the pirates were slain or driven off.  The original rogue trader lost his right arm in the conflict, leaving Xanatov to take up the older man's chainsword and lead the charge.<br/><br/>At 24, Xanatov's uncle retired and he received full title to the ship.