<div class="floatleft">(http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/oo122/grizzly/PirateWoman.jpg)</div>Roxelana Sandsmarque (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=847240)<br/><br/>Roxelana has piracy in her blood, though hardly by choice.  Her mother and father, Merrick 'Bloody Merry' Sandsmarque, is a pirate of some renown.  He claims dot have journeyed across the sea to Tian-Xian and brought back a vast treasure (which he quickly lost but that is another story).  More importantly, Merrick brought with him a woman scoundrel, Sun Tsai, a martial artist of some skill.  They fell madly in love with each other and with causing trouble.  Having a family only slowed them down a little, at least until their children were ready to embark on their own as part of the family business.  Embracing the family religion and a love of the freedom of the sea, Roxelana set out to make her own mark.<br/><br/>Roxelana's career did not start out very spectacularly.  She spent as much time plundering taverns as she did out on the seas, neither to much great success.  One might have mistaken her for a follower of the Drunken Hero given the amount of kegs that she helped to drain, were it not for the symbols of Besmara that graced the hilt of her Rapier, that she hardly uses, and around her neck.  She considers the rapier to be more of a holy symbol than an actual weapon, preferring to follow in her mothers footsteps and punch and kick away at her opponents to her hearts content.<br/><br/>The Sacred Fist doesn't consider herself malicious in any way.  Life was meant to be enjoyed, if you could grab it by the neck and give it a good shake, and that is what she did.  More than a little wild at times, Roxey spent several years drinking, plundering, and bedding both men and women.  Deciding that it was time to take things a little more seriously, Roxey set out to find a new ship to serve on.