Verad was a prospective candidate for hosting a Trill symbiont whose application was turned down by the Symbiosis Commission. Verad had spent his whole life trying to qualify for symbiosis, and bitterly resented being deprived of his ambition. Verad once worked as the communications clerk of the Federation consulate on Khefka IV. While stationed there, he visited an accommodation house where he met Mareel; the two fell in love and he took her with him to Trill when he was recalled.