Jayla's Translation of Katya's intutions about stat-cap-increases and ascension

The Tamorai expected that doing the Flames ritual has the side-effect of increasing the hegemons' power (substat raise), and also their potential for power (they, not people in general, get a stat-cap raise to 12 from this round). And this potential would be passed to their descendants as well. However, a human with a 12 psi stat would be approaching some state where Ascension might be possible (for that individual). So the Tamorai put a warning message about Ascension in the Hegemonicon, in case a hegemon actually got to that level (since after this Flames cycle, there would be the possibility of such a thing happening). The Tamorai *didn't* expect anyone other than a hegemon to ever get a stat cap of 12 (at least, not in the natural order of things. Katya doesn't know the mechanics of ascension, but thinks that raising of the stat cap is one of the components which enables it to become possible; some other factor is necessary for the actual trigger.