by PandaMan77
An alt-history magical fantasy set in a world where the old gods appeared on earth in the early 19th C. stopping settler colonialism at the Mississippi and establishing the rule of magic in Alta California, a sovereign state within the Mexican Republic. This story takes place a hundred years later, a light adventure pitting a non binary Chinese-Mexican smuggler captain and their mainly indigenous and mestizo crew against a German scientist who seeks to steal a source of magical power away from the land.
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 15 Oct 2026, 18:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 15 Oct 2026, 18:08 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.
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beats 18% of similar stories
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beats 5% of similar stories
Both levers trail the field
Traffic and conversion are both below comparable stories. Cadence is the first lever — stories posting near-daily reached 25 followers 17% of the time; stories posting every few days almost never did. Get the flow going, then re-check conversion.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
