I believe you can manually wake up pawns and they can do the same for you. Not sure about an actually "awakening" spell that was in play...
The mages are using weapon enhancements though and I can't tell what they are or when they are activated (I can see some obvious fire effects, but there is a "green aura" spell I want to know about). Would be nice to know. I think there will probably be many buffs in the final, would just be nice to see.