The Blue Rose Manuscript - The Round World - Cycles

Cycles: Series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order.

Existence runs in cycles. Some of them, like the seasons, the water cycle or the tides, are obvious, others, like the mechanisms of life, or the rise and fall of empires are not. 

Every quiet and settled system displays a natural tendency to suddenly and inexplicably generate unrest after a while. 

This happens because existence is motion, stillness means death to our universe.

Anyway, about the cycles. 

If you watch a phenomenon long enough, you notice that it starts displaying repetitive patterns, a fact that shows in all the workings of life. 

Some of these repeating patterns take too long to yield useful information, but if your life span allows you to observe a phenomenon enough times, you can perfect your response to it and better your odds of success in tackling its challenges. 

Training a skill, weather prognostication, sailing by the stars, these are all examples of using recognizable repetitions as instruments that allow you to engage in conscious interaction with events instead of randomly reacting to them. 

Your ability to read cycles is a tool, just like the quill you write with is a tool.