Yzzred was born in the drow city of Ishme Nanad, to the Tymer'Shyr family. Throughout his five decades within the city he performed many great atrocities, relishing the bloodshed in Lolth's dark name. 

While out with a contingent of house guards, hunting a party of svirfneblin, they happened upon a strange wizard's tower; the tower had not been in that tunnel the week before, it appeared as though by magic. Within they found a fully intact space, though there was no sign of a wizard anywhere. Scattered in a heap on the floor Yzzred found a cluster of odd tarot cards. Upon picking one up, he was met with a peculiar rendering of a set of scales; the card melted in his hands like so much ice.

In a cold flash, Yzzred's malice, hatred, and rancor melted away. It was replaced with kindness, caring, and... fear. Yzzred had somehow been perverted from his demonic nature. He bade his house contingent to continue on the search while he brought up the rear. Using the time he had bought himself, Yzzred gathered a collection of tomes and artifacts before fleeing the Underdark altogether.

During the next two centuries, Yzzred was not hunted, though he feared it at every step. Adventurers attempted to kill him on sight, despite his pleas and assurances. He made few friends in those years, though he spent a happy few decades with a dwarf he met in the steppes Wildbarrow. 

During this time, though it was against his nature, Yzzred studied and became a powerful wizard in his own right. Now residing somewhere in the Iceclaw alps, Yzzred lives a life of peace, using his magic to aid adventurers and forestall threats to his small valley.