by Ian W.J. McClure
I’ve been building this world for years. Piece by piece. Word by word. It’s a story that blends science and magic, AI and dragons, love and war. The kind of story I always wanted to read but could never quite find. It starts with a dying planet and a final sacrifice. A long-forgotten civilization chose extinction to protect another world. A blue world still in its infancy. What happens more than a million years later is the story I’m trying to tell. I don’t know if there’s an appetite for something like this. I don’t know if it’ll connect with anyone. But if you’re here and you’re curious, I’d love for you to give it a chance. And if you are intrigued, let me know. That’s all I really want to find out. I just want to tell a great story and hope it resonates with someone out there.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 11 Oct 2026, 05:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 11 Oct 2026, 05:38 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Rising Stars history is uncertain, so no precise projection is shown.
beats 44% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 2% of similar stories
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.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
