Born about a decade after the Great Mending, Niambi is the daughter of Teferi and a woman named Subira. Niambi grew up in Femeref, formerly a province of Teferi's lost homeland of Zhalfir, and is a cleric of the sun-worshiping Femerefan faith. Of the many wayward souls she has tended, Niambi considers her father her first and most important charge. At the age of 50, she is in the odd position of catching up in age with her father, who has appeared to be 50 for decades now. She accompanies him on his current expedition into an ancient temple to solve its puzzles. She is extremely smart, with a head for puzzle solving, and as sharp a tongue as her father.