A brawny warrior

You've always been big and muscular for your age: since youth, you've been able to out-wrestle, out-run, and often out-punch people sometimes one or two weight classes above you. Naturally, when it came time for you to learn a trade, you fell in with the town guard where you lived. You took to swordplay with equal ease, and your position in the guard worked well until you were caught in a compromising position with the captain's niece a couple years after you joined up. Since then, you've been making a living as a sellsword, traveling the land and offering your services wherever people can pay for them. It's a tough life, but it's yours. You've got your hardened leather armor, your sword, your shield, and your wits - and that's what you rely on.

Well - you do have one or two other skills that make you stand out from the crowd of mercenary swordsmen a bit.