"Yeah, that'd make its own kind of sense.  The event your history has down as 'humans suddenly acquired free will' could've been a magical template superposed on human biology, producing agents working for gods, and then somehow that magical template stopped working and suddenly you had the original humans again.  I do not know nearly enough of your history to guess what parts of the template or original human nature were locked together, I am guessing at a lot here.  I'd ask if the magical template made people - nonconscious, nonexperiencing - but I wouldn't expect you to have any way of knowing that, given the general fuzziness of your prehistory.  That whole scenario would actually be a pretty optimistic result, from my standpoint?  It means you don't have additional features making you crazier, and dath ilani training should still work on people here with high baseline intelligence."

"Yeah, that'd make its own kind of sense.  The event your history has down as 'humans suddenly acquired free will' could've been a magical template superposed on human biology, producing agents working for gods, and then somehow that magical template stopped working and suddenly you had the original humans again.  I do not know nearly enough of your history to guess what parts of the template versus original human nature were locked together, I am guessing at a lot here.  I'd ask if the magical template made people - nonconscious, nonexperiencing - but I wouldn't expect you to have any way of knowing that, given the general fuzziness of your prehistory.  That whole scenario would actually be a pretty optimistic result, from my standpoint?  It means you don't have additional features making you crazier, and dath ilani training should still work on people here with high baseline intelligence."