by Kevin Hayman
The End of all things is loose upon the world. Jack in the Leaves plans to unmake reality and create a world he sees as fair and he is using the Knights to do it. The Wide World stands aware of the dangers it faces, and if the Wide World falls, all of reality falls with it. The world, ALL worlds need a hero. They need the Oak King. They need Terry Lingal, the Errant Apprentice. Join Terry, Delores, Elton, and the New Paladins as they try to stop the end of the world and make it a world worth saving. A traditional fantasy set in the modern world. Updates Monday and Friday. Volume One: COMPLETE! Volume Two: COMPLETE! Volume Three: Begins September 14th, 2026 Covers by Kevin Hayman
#20
7/16/2026
Peak #50
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#19
7/14/2026
Peak #49
0d
#18
7/6/2026
Peak #46
0d
#17
7/6/2026
Peak #49
0d
#16
5/3/2026
Peak #49
0d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 09:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 09:38 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.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
65%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Contemporary → Romance → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Contemporary (63%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#8036 of 12,200 · 7986 below RS #50
By genre
beats 3% of similar stories
beats 75% of similar stories
beats 35% of similar stories
Both levers trail the field
Traffic and conversion are both below comparable stories. Cadence is the first lever — stories posting near-daily reached 25 followers 17% of the time; stories posting every few days almost never did. Get the flow going, then re-check conversion.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
