by Path Liar
Galladon Tarth lives through childhood, but another has taken his place. To protect his new family from the dangers of this world, he will have to forge his own legend. Starts before Robert’s Rebellion. Slight AU - leaning a little into the overpoweredness of single fighters that we see glimpses of in the books, where people like Arthur Dayne, prime Robert Baratheon, Jaime Lannister, Barrister Selmy, the Cleganes, Daemon Blackfyre, etc are said to be worth dozens of common soldiers. Expect: fighting, politics, adventure, war, kingdom-building, etc Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire
#4
3/22/2026
Peak #50
0d
#3
1/28/2026
Peak #21
52d
#2
1/28/2026
Peak #50
0d
#1
1/27/2026
Peak #50
0d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 08:18 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 08:18 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.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
3%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Comedy → Action → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Comedy (3%).
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
#4702 of 12,176 · 4652 below RS #50
By genre
beats 72% of similar stories
beats 59% of similar stories
beats 86% 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 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
