by Kokatron
The sun is gone. Magic is gone. Both stolen by a traitorous queen. Darkness should have meant the end. Instead, humanity adapted. Cities endured. People survived. Life went on beneath this eternal night. Yet one question remains: What if the sun could be taken back? And so begins the greatest pursuit in history: The chase for sunlight. (If you have a love for slow paced stories with a focus on the characters, this is one of them.)
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 3 Oct 2026, 21:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 3 Oct 2026, 21:38 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: Romance → Adventure → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Romance (2%).
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
#9123 of 12,457 · 9073 below RS #50
By genre
beats 41% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 1% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
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 lifetime.
