![Arcane Zoologist: The Dragon's Chosen [ProgFan, Magic]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.royalroadcdn.com%2Fpublic%2Fcovers-large%2F169064-arcane-zoologist-the-dragons-chosen-progfan.jpg%3Ftime%3D1781848407&w=640&q=75)
by AmberAtlas
Calluna is a village girl who one day will bring dragons back to the world. Obsessed with arcane beasts, young Calluna has become an outcast in a village filled with monster hunters. However, one day after saving a glimmerhare, Callie stumbles upon a dragon, a creature believed to be long extinct. As if it wasn't groundbreaking enough, the dragon blesses her with magic. Her life is never the same. Follow the journey of Calluna, how she grows from a small, naive girl into a full-fledged arcane zoologist with the kind of magic no human has ever witnessed before. What to expect: - Slow burn (from childhood to adulthood) - Clear magic progression - Weak to Strong - Arcane beast discoveries and mysteries - Real stakes with cozy moments Cover art by Kindra Tia New chapter every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
#27
8/17/2026
Peak #45
7d
#26
8/17/2026
Peak #50
0d
#25
8/16/2026
Peak #50
0d
#24
8/14/2026
Peak #48
0d
#23
8/10/2026
Peak #50
0d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:09 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:09 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
30%
Two or more lists
21%
Likely threshold order: Drama → Mystery → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Drama + Mystery (20%).
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
#7145 of 12,414 · 7095 below RS #50
By genre
beats 81% of similar stories
beats 7% of similar stories
beats 84% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
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.
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