
by YCB
An ordinary world exists beside another—one built on strength, secrecy, and survival. When long-buried connections begin to resurface, the boundary between them weakens. A boy pulled from normalcy. A girl who has already learned to endure. A warrior chasing a name of her own. A prodigy weighed down by the cost of his brilliance. A presence born of sound, longing for something beyond the island that binds him. Anakoa is a hidden land, shaped by trials and unspoken rules. It does not reveal itself willingly, and it does not forgive those who trespass. As old wounds reopen and unseen forces begin to move, these lives converge—some drawn by choice, others by fate. What waits beyond the veil is not a single story, but many—intertwined, unfinished, and dangerous to uncover.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 4 Oct 2026, 04:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 4 Oct 2026, 04:28 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
2%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Mystery → Romance → Adventure → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Mystery + Romance (1%).
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
#10894 of 12,227 · 10844 below RS #50
By genre
beats 18% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 6% 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 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.