by Quan Schmidt
When a young man is proclaimed to be a mage by his father, the whims of fate send the man spiraling on a perilous journey across the continent. This is the story of a man born to lead a life of books, but caught between conflict after conflict. Will he face his trying battles, or will he turn tail and run?
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 6 Oct 2026, 15:18 UTC
Entry forecast updated 6 Oct 2026, 15:18 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 13% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 1% 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 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
