by oceanofthesky
These islands are dangerous, even for a dragon… ‘I regret to inform you that despite apprehending the dragon-riding criminal…the dragon itself evaded capture and attacked the fort in which the prisoner was being held. She escaped her bonds and reunited with the dragon. Their current whereabouts are unknown.’ ‘Warding Song’ is a fantasy adventure novel, set in a fictional archipelago inspired by the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. It follows both Eleyna, a teenage girl on the run, and Trill, a young dragon trying to prove herself. When they cross paths, the two unlikely heroines team up to find a mysterious hoard of treasure, one that few have seen, and many have died trying to take. Yet everyone from dragon hunters to Imperial soldiers are after them, including one man on a quest for vengeance who will stop at nothing…
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, 03:49 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 03:49 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
9%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Historical → Action → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Historical (7%).
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
#9775 of 12,409 · 9725 below RS #50
By genre
beats 72% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 21% 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 over the recent window.
