Animus Powers *spoilers*

I think this is an interesting concept, but I'm not entirely sure how it would work. Like, it seems weird for something (or someone) to be able to prevent everyone at once from using their animus powers (unless someone pulled a Darkstalker and just magicked away animus powers like he did for Turtle). My theory is that Jerboa has something to do with it, she seemed really suspicious in the epilogue of The Poison Jungle.

A really cool idea would be that they can't use animus powers because they've been 'infected' by something, like the Othermind, but since the Othermind is only on Pantala I doubt that's what it is.