<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Shikoba Lysander</strong></span></span><br/><strong><br/>Half-Elf Swashbuckler 5 / Paladin 1</strong><br/>http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=13125<br/></div><div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/R1u68dc.jpg)</div>When Shikoba Lysander was barely twelve years of age, her family was struck by great tragedy. Her father, the lone supporter and bread winner of her household was murdered by the coward known as Wilford Grayson - a man build like a bullock, all muscle - leaving behind her mother, herself and four younger siblings. One would think the man would have been easy to find, but he had vanished after this act almost without a trace. It was three weeks later that a law man had cornered him, ferreted him out of his hiding place and brought to the court house to stand trial. It would have been much easier for the bruised and beaten officer to have passed sentence and killed the man whilst defending himself, but he had brought him in alive that the family could have closure and see justice done with their own eyes.<br/>The young girl was changed by the ordeal, and from then on dedicated herself to training in martial prowess so that she could one day join the sheriff's office in Skypoint, and deliver the force of the law to those who would oppose it and cause grievance to the weak and defenceless.<br/><br/>At the age of eighteen she was officially admitted into law enforcement, but soon began to see something other than the ideals she had held growing up in adoration of the man who had aided her family. The laws of the land favored those in positions of power and priviledge, while the poor and meek were usually left to fend for themselves - on top of this, heavy restrictions of where the law was carried out were in place, usually only within the city boundaries, and should a fugitive escape to the surface? The sheriff's office held no authority there and would refuse to go after them.<br/>Through a little digging, it seemed that the man who had chased after Grayson had been a member of the sheriff's office at one point, but by the time he had taken the job to go after her father's killer he had left and become a marshal, a bounty hunter, who took contracts from both individuals and received compensation for the government for fugitives who had escaped the juristictions set for official law men.<br/><br/>Within a year, Shikoba left the sheriff's office, setting up a small firm of her own as the man she had admired had done so many years ago. Since then she's had only a small number of cases, though they had paid well enough (due to bringing those she chased in alive, as it both paid more and went with her personal morals to never take a life if it can be helped) to keep her with a roof over her head and, while not steak dinners, definitely canned goods if she rationed her money well enough.