Dead men tell the best tales.

by AngelNersus

Tragedy AdventureRomance SubplotLitRPGTragedyAdventureShort StoryRomance Subplot

Shadow rank ~440–520 in Tragedy

When two opposing magical affinities collide, when little girls are kidnapped and someone steps up to rescue them, when the dead raise their voices, when the only necromancer touched by the dark god intervenes... If all of this were ever to happen, without a doubt, it would be the best story a dead man could tell.

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Current Rank

#40

Peak Rank

Followers

100

Story Timeline

Started

1y ago

5mo ago

Entered Short_story RS

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#5 Short_story

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#50 Short_story

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#50 Short_story

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Overview Engagement Prose Chapters

Ranking History

Track position changes over time

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Rating Breakdown

Overall4.79

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Streak History

Current

8/11/2026

Peak #40

#11

7/3/2026

Peak #12

38d

#10

6/29/2026

Peak #44

6/16/2026

Peak #45

6/16/2026

Peak #45

Shadow RS Climb

Rank updated 15 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC

Entry forecast updated 15 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC

Overall Rising Stars shadow rank

top ~95%±0

deep field · ~#6581 of 6,878 · 6531 below #50

Followers/day (7d)+0.1

vs #50 follower pace-73/wk

P(enter ≤14d)0%

By genre

Reader Funnel

How efficiently views become followers — benchmarked against 8,060 active stories with 5–9 chapters

Views

9.7k

17.2 follows / 1k viewslast 30d

beats 95% of similar stories

Followers

100

0.37 favs / follower

beats 70% of similar stories

Favorites

Traffic (last 30d)8 views/day

beats 46% of similar stories

Conversion trend

Improvingrecent 17.2/1k vs lifetime 10.3/1k

Mid-pack, room on both levers

Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.

At this conversion, the Tragedy Rising Stars bar (≈0 new followers/day) costs about 12 views/day — the story currently gets ~8.

Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 5–9 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.