Niamara Bancanor

Niamara "Nia" Bancanor is one of Daja Kisubo's students in Cold Fire, along with her twin sister Jorality; the twins are twelve years old at the time the novel takes place. Nia is an ambient carpentry mage, a fact which causes her some anxiety when she discovers it, because she worries that no family will want a carpenter as a wife for their son; her parents assuage her worries by suggesting the son of a family of shipwrights, and it's implied that Nia has a crush on the boy.

Nia's priamry teachers are first Camoc Oakborn, and later his former apprentice Arnen when he strikes out on his own.

Another byproduct of Nia's magic is her fear of fire. Daja tells her that this fear will abate when she gets more used to her magic and stops feeling as though she herself were made of wood.