The Epic of Cyclos

The Epic of Cyclos, also known by its full title The Epic of Cyclos and the Tragedy of Melani, is one of the central holy texts of the House of the White Circle. It consists of twelve books of fifteen chapters each, and it chronicles the story of the prophets Cyclos and Melani, who in Cycle 180 of the Age of Humanity received the revelations of the White Circle. The text claims to have been written by Tesuin Antrioldi, one of the last survivors of humanity during the future Age of Singularity, and was subsequently distributed back through time to the true believers within each prophetic cycle. It also serves in some capacity as an introductory text into deeper lore, discussing several complex doctrines and rituals at length.

Structure
The Epic of Cyclos is divided into twelve books, each containing fifteen chapters, adding up to a total of 180. Likely, this is an allusion to the number of degrees in a semicircle and a reference to the fact that the story takes place at the halfway point of the Age of Humanity in Cycle 180.

The text is also known to exhibit strange mathematical characteristics. Firstly, the full word count of the book is 129,600 words, equal to the square of 360, which represents a full circle. This excludes words left untranslated in the opening lines of each chapter, which add up to 1,696, plus an additional four left in the original script in Chapter 174, which bring that total to 1,700 (it isn't clear whether either of these numbers have significance). Across all chapters, there also happens to be a sum of 3,600 chapters, which appears intentional.

The lengths of the chapters themselves, when arranged from longest to shortest by word count, also appear to follow mathematical principles, specifically that of Zipf's law. Chapter 120, the longest in the book, comes to a whopping 22,450 words. The second longest, Chapter 105, is precisely half that length, at 11,225 words long. Chapter 135 comes in third, and happens to be almost exactly a third as long, coming to 7,483 words. The fourth longest is likewise a fourth as long as the first, and so on. This phenomenon is consistent until the shortest chapter, Chapter 174, which has a mere 121 words, though it does fit the pattern if the 4 untranslated words are added into the total.

Similarly, the longest three chapters are divided into subchapters because of their sheer length, and these subchapters follow the same principle.

Characters
Several characters inhabit the world of the Epic of Cyclos, too numerous to describe in detail here, but a list of the major players should suffice:


 * Cyclos
 * Melani
 * Sayivon
 * Galistus
 * Hebinsea
 * Retaia
 * Nalloram
 * Telscia
 * Chrothagnairo
 * Miphesulkur
 * Toa'atel
 * Jaundicor
 * Oen
 * Monta
 * Shan
 * Etc.