User blog comment:Holokami/Character Sheet: Lumi Faraday/@comment-4867780-20160907220907/@comment-26993961-20160911234207

Indeed!

Awakening, as explained, involves you hitting the roof of your power, and then to keep pushing as hard as your can to break through, dig to the deepest parts of your psionic mind, and learn everything there is to know about your power, you'll hit the awakening point. Then one last, very difficult push, and you'll awaken the depths of your mind- the very core of your psionic self, and all the power and capabilities you're able to achieveve (within your limit that is) will awaken, granting an enormous boost in power and capability.

As an example of the scaling factor, Yarozu could control a few tens of thousands of spirits at once at her peak, but after awakening, she had the power to create and control four hundred million spirits, and she can do ever better than that, so if a being with mentifery/reality warping awakens, it's hopefully easy to see the rise to absolute psionic power. ^^

Once you've awakened though, that's it, you can grow no more powerful. You can min-max and learn how to use your power, but you've attained your "personal perfection", as the Ae'ani put it. If another writing-type awakens, their power will rise up high- very high in fact, but Lumi won the race, and attained absolute psionic power, so will forever have that seat of power, unless she dies of course. ^^