
by Pen Ronin
1480 AD: Elyus Luthier was a shut-in musician until his father thrust a pendant into his hands and told him to run. Now he possesses a power so great that it threatens to burn him to ash. But when he uses it, he creates the myths and legends of history. 2101 AD: Rich Borgan is an augmented survival streamer who has turned the wilderness into a content farm. But when he’s drafted into the fight against one of the four Titans, he discovers biological upgrades mean little against magic and monsters. 10,000 BC: Diawolf, a mammoth hunter, is cursed to see only through the eyes of beasts. He must uncover what dark magic turned his tribe’s descendants into silent, obedient servants, because if he doesn’t save them, no one will.Across the fractured timelines of Terrakaia, the Shards of Creation call to those who will determine the fate of the world, for the Tree of Worlds is dying. As the heroes converge on an immortal shaman who intends to release the Titans, they discover what happens when the Shards come together. The world is imperiled not only by its enemies, but by what they’ve conjured. What to expect: Unique Magic System: magic users create proxies to avoid banishing themselves from the primary world. Genre-Blending: High fantasy meets low fantasy. Hard magic meets soft magic. This is a power progression isekai where time travel is part of the world. Multi-POV Narrative: Though the primary pov is Elyus, it includes a rotating cast whose fates are bound closely together. Deep Worldbuilding: The world experiences a fifteen-thousand-year repetition. The cities and towns can be visited from multiple time periods, so each location has another dimension. Characters will visit these locations from prehistory, classical antiquity, the Middle Ages, and all the way to a cyberpunk future.
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #28
2d
#5
7/26/2026
Peak #43
1d
#4
7/3/2026
Peak #18
38d
#3
6/16/2026
Peak #21
17d
#2
6/8/2026
Peak #24
7d
Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#5971 of 7,531 · 5921 below #50
By genre
beats 83% of similar stories
beats 85% of similar stories
beats 40% 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.
At this conversion, the Sci-fi Rising Stars bar (≈1 new followers/day) costs about 325 views/day — the story currently gets ~96.
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.