Top of the intellectual food chain. On Asulon, there is a distinction drawn between sentience and sapience, intelligence and wisdom. The anSebban are the Wise Ones, sapient. Those beings considered to be "Man", or have a soul/spirit, an eternal being. The sentient may have intelligence but no soul or spirit. They are not eternal. According to the stories, there was once a race of beings known as "humans", who believed themselves sapient. They allegedly had companion creatures called "dogs" that were sentient--that is, intelligent, wily, or crafty, but not wise. They had no soul or spirit and were therefore not eternal. There were once upon a time storied beings called 'elves' that were very long-lived and highly intelligent and were thought wise, but having no soul or spirit and not eternal. These creatures, obviously, are fictional, because there cannot be Wisdom without an eternal soul/spirit, regardless of race.