Confidential File: H-1206-II
Classification: Basic Secrecy – Access restricted to ranks: Novice Reader and Fanatic Reader.
Responsible Institution: SFR – Society of Free Readers – Magical Records Section.
Date of Transcription: July 2025
Reporter: Ivyra, Helena | Codename: Clover
Subject: Literary Mark Structure – Agent Clover – Known Marks
According to Thomas S. Kuhn, Assistant Professor of General Education and History of Science at Harvard University, the paradigms governing science and literature share several notable similarities.
Both fields develop based on discoveries, reformulations, and interpretive advancements. When assuming the role of a scientist or researcher, an individual plays an active part in the process of knowledge construction and dissemination.
The researcher not only observes but also interprets and proposes new methodologies or ways of thinking, thus becoming the author of their own discoveries.
This reasoning can also be applied to the experience of a literary reader, who, by delving into a text, becomes not just a receiver but a co-author of meanings.
The figure of the reader can, therefore, be compared to that of a Dominator Author. This concept helps us more clearly understand the fundamental role the reader plays in the construction and perpetuation of symbolic knowledge.
By engaging with a literary work, the reader actively contributes by interpreting it, applying their emotional, cultural, and intellectual background to extract meanings and elaborate new understandings. Thus, each reading constitutes an act of rediscovery.
This process is concretely reflected in what are called Literary Marks.
A Literary Mark represents a specific form of enchantment generated through a deep, emotional, and intellectual bond between the reader and the work.
This bond transcends a superficial understanding of the plot, as it involves a magical, symbolic, and often sensorial interaction with the elements that compose the narrative universe of the book.
The reader's experience thus becomes a kind of interpretive ritual, where the reader not only deciphers but actively participates in the construction of meaning. Therefore, understanding how marks are structured is essential to comprehending the breadth of the reader's interpretive power.
Literary Marks are composed of four fundamental elements:
Level, Base Book, Mastery, and Ability
To illustrate this concept practically, I offer my two main marks as examples: Chains of Marginal Liberty and Axiomatic Tessellation.
Mark Profile: Chains of Marginal Liberty
Literary Mark/Enchantment: Chains of Marginal Liberty
Base Book:Captains of the Sands – Jorge Amado
Level: Secondary Dominator
Mastery: Proficient (12 years)
Ability: Summons specters of the dock boys, spiritual representations that act with specific functions depending on the specter's purpose. However, when using the respective powers of these specters, one's feelings can become confused.
Known Specters:
Specter Bala: His function is leadership and tactics, enveloped in broken chains and burning red scarves. He possesses the power to slightly inspire specters in combat coordination.
Additionally, he aids in vision, serving as an expansion of Helena's field of view, allowing her to see the surroundings. Moreover, he always appears in Helena's defense when she suffers a stealth attack, acting as a protector.
Specter Gato: His application is illusory, made of dark mist and feline eyes glowing burnished yellow. He creates illusory duplicates of Helena, making it difficult for enemies to attack directly.
Specter Professor: His main function is support, made of flying pages and light green eyes. He unleashes fragments of sharp phrases—projectiles of wisdom—that confuse the enemy, jumbling their decisions, causing a temporary disorientation effect.
Specter Sem-Pernas (Legless): A mischievous specter that plants disguised traps in mundane objects like bags, glass shards, and boxes.
When activated, they momentarily overwhelm the individual with a feeling, such as rage, hatred, or envy.
His appearance is mysterious; only a rusty cart that creaks repeatedly appears on the ground.
Specter Dora: A young woman enveloped in veils made of dusty leaves and dried petals, capable of healing emotional and spiritual wounds caused by mental attacks.
Additionally, she provokes an involuntary feeling of empathy in enemies, causing them to hesitate or briefly retreat.
Specter Boa-Vida (Good-Life): The most childish of them all, a mask made of newspaper, always laughing.
He serves as a kind of wild card, creating distractions with sound effects like music, laughter, drumming, among others. He can also adapt environmental objects as small improvised weapons.Mark Profile: Axiomatic Tessellation
In recent years, I have deepened my studies in exact sciences, especially geometry and mathematics, with the goal of better preparing myself and increasing my level of technical knowledge. As a natural consequence of this immersion, I developed a second literary mark.
Literary Mark/Enchantment: Axiomatic Tessellation
Base Book:The Elements – Euclid
Level: Secondary Dominator
Mastery: Intermediate (8 years)
Ability: Creates spiritual structures and geometric constructs, such as hexagonal barriers, precision lines, and mathematical projections. It allows me to formulate objects with my mind and hands as if weaving them at that moment.
It uses Axioms of First Degree to form the base of the structures, and Axioms of Second Degree to provide greater resistance, detail, and variety to the constructs.
The Axioms of Third Degree are still a mystery as to how they will impact the constructs.
Analyzing the structures of my two enchantments, it is possible to observe that my interpretive style is Analog.
This means that I recreate experiences, concepts, and elements from the works through energetic manifestations, be they in the form of specters, mathematical constructs, or imaginative structures derived from deep reading.
Both enchantments, despite originating from literary sources with very different themes, styles, and narrative purposes, coexist harmoniously and complementarily within my magical practice.
This harmony between distinct styles reveals how the reader is capable of traversing diverse literary universes, absorbing and re-signifying their messages with creative freedom.
It is this interpretive plasticity that gives rise to the most powerful Literary Marks, as they not only reflect the passive reading of a text but its symbolic integration into the reader's identity.
In essence, a Literary Mark is the magical materialization of reading, being a direct reflection of the human capacity to imbue the world with meaning through words.
Each reader possesses their own identity, which characterizes how the powers will be represented within them, maintaining consistency even if the books are by different authors, from different times, or of different genres.
The inspirations may vary, but the perception tends to remain the same.