by Samlefomas
Fate is a big deal in Midgard, as are heroes and monsters, villains, legends, gods, and relics. Indy, though? Indy is an in-over-their-head young person being dragged into a world they were never meant to be a part of. When destiny smashes down your door and crawling back under the covers isn't an option, you better get ready to embrace it as best as you can, and to hell with the consequences! Live fast, die young, and leave a pretty corpse right?Updates regularly. [Participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 5 Oct 2026, 19:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 5 Oct 2026, 19:38 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 83% of similar stories
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Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
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.
