by minichirops
Twelve-year-old Dalliance Rather is expected to become a brutal laborer like his father. Instead, aided by a fairy godmother, he’s secretly a [Scamp] with a plan to win his way into the elite King's Collegiate. He’s going to build the perfect [Wizard]. Reality disagrees. Expect a literary pitch-dark Victorian-era coming-of-age homage to Mark Twain in a LitRPG setting, in which power accumulates gradually and extracts a price, but found family finds a path forward. Now starting Volume 3!
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:09 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:09 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
1%
Two or more lists
0%
Likely threshold order: Drama → Romance → Action → Main → Adventure → Fantasy.
Leading bundle: Drama (0%).
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
#4845 of 12,414 · 4795 below RS #50
By genre
beats 69% of similar stories
beats 27% of similar stories
beats 82% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 150+ chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
