Her regal beauty is marred by battle scars. Her penetrating blue eyes and her smoldering countenance testify that she will brook no evil or injustice. Sadly, Tyrza is a person who seldom smiles or laughs, due to her station and her religion, as well as to her painful, mysterious past.

When Tyrza was ten years old, she was rescued from an encampment of orc bandits and brigands by agents of the "Triad" (the gods Tyr, Torm and Ilmater). Tyrza does not remember how she became a captive among the orcs. When her rescuers found her, she was starving, battered, and near catatonic. She did not - nor does she now - remember anything from her early childhood, not even her original name. The name "Tyrza" was given by the paladins and clerics who reared her to adulthood and trained her to be a paladin. It is suspected that Tyrza is of noble birth, and that the orcs had been holding her for ransom. Unfortunately, none of the orcs who might have known anything about her past had survived the raid on their camp by the zealous agents of the Triad.