Janya is unusually tidy for a Brown Sister. She is slender, with short, dark hair, and pretty despite a perpetual frown. Despite her age not a hint of gray is showing in her hair. She is described as "bird-like". Romanda thinks that Janya maybe has bad eyes, which would explain her squinting. She is very inquisitive, wants to know the why and how of everything, and becomes very disappointed because she can not make ter'angreal. She talks in quick and long cascades. She does not bother to hide her curiosity behind a mask of serenity