Jasmine

Jasmine was a demigod, a healer in aspiration and practice, and Dorian’s beloved. Her death in the massacre of the demigods extinguished not only a life devoted to helping others but also the future she and Dorian had imagined together; her memory remains bound to his grief and to the destruction of their people.

Identity and Calling

Dorian remembers Jasmine as a good child of the gods whose powers, like his own, had been used to help humanity. His recollection presents her through this commitment to service: she was not defined by a struggle for power, but by the work she and Dorian hoped to do for others. The account offers no further details about her family or life before their relationship, but it makes her values central to how he remembers her.

Jasmine and Dorian discussed working in temples of healing, where they could use their gifts to help people. Dorian believed he was naturally suited to that work because his father had made him a skilled healer. The plan was shared rather than merely imagined by him: the two of them talked about serving together, giving their relationship a practical purpose alongside its intimacy. Their hoped-for life joined love with a vocation, and healing with the use of their powers for the benefit of others.

Love and Envisioned Future

Jasmine and Dorian had been together only briefly, but his recollection describes their attachment as mutual and intense. He had fallen hard for her, and he believed she had done the same. That brevity matters: the future he mourns was not a life they had already lived together, but one they had begun to envision before violence cut it short.

Dorian recalls seeing their future together: marriage, children, and growing old until they died in bed. The vision gives their loss a particular shape. It is not simply the end of a romance; it is the collapse of the ordinary life they had expected to build, including family and shared work. In the same memory, the temple of healing stands as a possible place for that life to unfold. Their plans combined a private future with a public commitment to help others.

The Massacre and Separation

The killing of the demigods turns that hoped-for future into something impossible. Dorian remembers finding his demigod family dead and reflects on the horror that demigods had turned against their own kind, while those who survived the first violence were then slaughtered by the people who had given them life. Jasmine’s fate belongs to this wider destruction, though the account does not specify who killed her or exactly how she died.

Before he was cornered in a temple, Dorian had been in his garden preparing a tonic that would make him and Jasmine appear dead. He intended for them to escape the killings together. The plan depended on reaching one another: Jasmine became lost in the turmoil, while Dorian was trapped in the temple. He drank the tonic alone, and the people there to kill him took him for dead. When he woke, he searched for Jasmine but could not find her. The separation that thwarted their escape left him alive, but did not save her.

Death and Burial

Dorian eventually found Jasmine’s lifeless body. The sight overwhelmed him, and he fell to his knees before crawling to her and holding her. He stayed with her for several minutes, then made a pyre for her and the other fallen demigods. His farewell places Jasmine within both parts of his loss: she was the person he loved, and she was one of a people whose dead he believed deserved proper rites rather than abandonment.

He gathered wood from the homes of the dead and carefully collected coins for the funeral rites, placing money over the bodies’ eyes to pay the ferryman. The details make the burial an act of care carried out amid devastation. He gave Jasmine one last look before setting the wood alight. As the pyres burned, Dorian stopped weeping for the futures that had been lost with them, took the pack he had prepared, and walked away.

Narrative Significance

Jasmine’s role in the account is inseparable from the contrast between the life she and Dorian planned and the world left by the massacre. Their healing work, marriage, and children belong to a future Dorian had already pictured; the tonic and the funeral mark the failed attempt to preserve that future and the finality of its destruction. Her story is told through his recollection, so the reader encounters her chiefly in the terms of their shared hopes and his acts of mourning, rather than through an independent account of her thoughts.

After weeks of travel, Dorian found work as a healer in the army under General Draco, tending to the soldiers and helping them recover. The chronology places that service after his departure from the dead, though it does not state that Jasmine’s death alone caused his decision to join the army. The memory nevertheless preserves the healing purpose they had once discussed together: Dorian continues to use his skill, but the shared life and partnership that gave their plan its meaning are gone. Jasmine’s death thus stands both as a personal bereavement and as part of the larger destruction that leaves Dorian moving on without the future he had seen.