by truetrees
Rabid Butterfly In a world ruled by a ruthless Empire, people are born beneath the stars, and some are cursed by them. There are 108 Stars of Destiny, mortals marked by constellations and gods long thought dormant. When a star awakens, power follows… and so does the Empire. Branded as harbingers of rebellion, stars are hunted, enslaved, or slaughtered before they can fulfill a fate no one truly understands. The Emperor claims to rule by divine light, but prophecy tells a darker truth, one the Empire has rewritten in blood. As the stars begin to awaken once more, magic grows unstable, monsters stir, and ancient wounds reopen. A hidden lake, a fallen house, forgotten gods, and a boy bearing the first mark of darkness all point toward a coming Gathering. A Gathering that cannot be stopped. When all stars shine at once, gods may return… or die forever.
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, 11:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 11:58 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
26%
Two or more lists
19%
Likely threshold order: Horror → Action → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Horror + Action (10%).
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
#2812 of 12,216 · 2762 below RS #50
By genre
beats 95% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 30% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
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.
