by MaxMaze
★ "Michelin Star Steampunk served in a Brick of Text" — AdiofBali★ "A masterclass in convergence" — Weaver of Tales★ 4.79/5 from early readers · 18 chapters · Daily updates --- The world's Heart is dying. Only five shards of it remain. When a wooden thief is cornered in a library tower, she hides one of those shards inside the most disposable thing she can find — a blank-faced puppet apprentice named Goody. He has no voice. No memory. No name. He has only just begun to suspect that he exists. Now a usurper hunts the shard from the back of a black dragon. Rebels in a hidden city sharpen weapons for an impossible war. And a small wooden creature in a clockmaker's bag is carrying the last pulse of a god — learning, far too quickly, what love, shame, and grief mean. A dark steampunk fairytale. Daily updates.
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Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#2801 of 7,531 · 2751 below #50
By genre
beats 83% of similar stories
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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 Drama Rising Stars bar (≈1 new followers/day) costs about 303 views/day — the story currently gets ~95.
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.
