Secondary

**Secondari** (Japanese: セカンダリ Sekandari) is the second of the three holy books in the anime series, first appearing in Episodes 1 and 2 in a vision and in real-time respectively. It is a red book - and within it, written in Elies characters, are the words *Sarks Sark*, the words of the Essence.

## History

It is unknown who created the three books, so the history of Secondari is merely derived from the anime series.

### 1999

Friday Monday used the three books to begin Gazth-Sonika's civil war. After getting shot by Colonel Burton, Friday lost the books, Secondari laid open, Poupee's blood spattered onto part of it, and a page was torn out by the wind. Margaret Burton took Secondari with her back to Nafrece while Madlax kept the torn page with her in Gazth-Sonika.

### 2011

Secondari remained in Margaret's possession for twelve years. It stayed in the closet of her bedroom until she rediscovered it in Episode 2. Ever since, she kept the book on her person at all times. Believing it to be a present from her father, Margaret treasured it so much that her maid Elenore Baker hired Eric Gillan to find out more about the book in Episode 7. In the end (Episode 8), Eric failed. Carrossea Doon met with Margaret in Episode 13 and was unnerved when looking at the blood-spattered section of Secondari. Carrossea initially planned to take the book from Margaret by force, but instead found that he likes Margaret and can't make himself hurt her or steal from her. Also, in Episode 13, Nakhl tried to take Secondari from Margaret, but stopped her with a threat.

Meanwhile, the missing page of Secondari remained in Madlax's possession for twelve years as the civil war waged. Madlax believed it to be a good luck charm, and had it pinned to the wall of her apartment in Daman. In Episodes 16 and 17, she first heard of Secondari from Friday, and before leaving her apartment later on, she took the torn page with her. In Episode 18, Madlax tried to find out more information about the book Enfant was after.

In Episode 20, Margaret tried to read Secondari, while Madlax read Thirstari, and the two were able to see a glimpse of what happened twelve years ago. Carrossea and Margaret would then use all three books in Episode 21 to summon the Door of Truth which resulted in Carrossea's death, Margaret getting captured by Friday along with the books, except for the missing page. Eventually, Friday acquired the missing page from Madlax and reattached it to Secondari, and all three books were used again in Episodes 25 and 26. By the end of the last episode, Secondari and the other books were destroyed by fire.

## Powers

*See also The Gift.*

Each of the books hold great supernatural powers. Individually, Secondari can be used to chant the words of Essence, but simply looking at the pages can cause people to be affected as seen in Episode 6. Put them all together, they can be used to summon the Door of Truth, which would then lead to the Door of the Era.

## Trivia

* Prior to the creation of books, particularly the codex, stone tablets and scrolls were used by ancient civilizations for writing. So, it could be speculated that the three books were created no earlier than the first century (CE). Furthermore, it is uncertain if the pages are made of papyrus or paper, but it could be speculated that the books were made in Asia since the first papermaking process was documented in China during the Eastern Han period (25–220 CE).

### Name Origin

* The names of the books are most likely derived from spatial, or chronological, ordinal numerals (*first*, *second*, and *third*). This is consistent with the order in which the words of the books are chanted.

## Related Pages

* Firstari
* Thirstari

## External Links

* Book (Wikipedia)
* Ordinal Numerals (Wikipedia)