by Brian M.
At its heart, this is old school high fantasy. Think Tolkien meets Robin Hobb. Literary, character-driven, and built for readers who still believe a story should make you fall in love with a world before it takes everything away. Nebrier is a wood elf ranger. Sionna is shadow-touched and runs toward danger like it owes her money. They've known each other their whole lives and they're only just figuring out what that means, right as something thought buried forty years ago starts pulling itself out of the ground. Chapter One is warm. It gets darker. Fair warning.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 23 Oct 2026, 19:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 23 Oct 2026, 19:38 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.
Not enough recent follower history to estimate a shadow rank yet.
beats 26% of similar stories
not enough data yet
needs about a week of observations
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 2–4 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
