Sykes - The Thief

==Sykes - The Thief==
"If you want something, I can get it for you. You want someone gone, I can get them out of your way." -Sykes
Sykes was born and raised in Stonehearth in the region known to the locals as the Blackstone mountains. Sykes mother was a craftsman and his father was a merchant who traveled to sell his wife's wears. Wanting a better life for Sykes, his parents sent him to boarding school, in hopes that he could become a steward to some lord.
Sykes made an easy target at the boarding school for other students since he was new, small, from an unknown family, and completely without friends or connections. He was hazed from the moment he arrived. Were it not for the intervention of a much more fearsome older Dwarven girl, he may have not survived the first week of school. Instead, thanks to his savior, he was given a reprieve. Although he was no longer an easy target for his classmates, he did not make friends easily. This fit his personality, though, so he did not mind. He used his solitude to make sure he was never vulnerable again.
Sykes was no fool; he knew that he would never be able to protect himself in a straight up fight: he came to rely upon subtlety, speed, and dubious techniques. He tried to gain leverage on every classmate of his. This made him learn to be stealthy so he could eaves drop on his peers and made him learn to pick locks so he could go into their rooms and search their belongings.
After some years at the school, he began to get bored with the drudgery of social maneuvering. He wanted to make a fortune or, at very least, test his skills... [to be continued]