To elaborate a bit, Sapphire desperately wanted to see something good in her ashborn heritage - especially after learning the circumstances around her own birth, and the reasons for why her mother hates her. The shock of seeing Jasmine in such a sorry state was the last straw, and what caused her to eventually gravitate to the nihilism of the varpari and embrace her fate as a lantern in C’aara’s collection.
I finished Michael Moorcock’s “The Sailor on the Seas of Fate” today and towards the end this character called “The Creature Doomed to Live” shows up, and like, yes, he has a name, and it’s J’osui C’rein Reyr, but the text just kept referring back to him as “The Creature Doomed to Live” so all I could think was