by Mehobxy
Tarin Vale leaves his peaceful valley with a book of old heroes, a head full of songs, and a simple dream: to find a story worth telling. But the road is not like the ballads. Beyond home, kindness has a cost, strangers hide sharp truths, and even small choices can lead to dark places. As Tarin chases adventure, he begins to learn that heroes are not made by songs. They are made by what the world takes from them.
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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 · ~#5421 of 7,628 · 5371 below #50
By genre
beats 48% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 26% 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 Romance Rising Stars bar (≈4 new followers/day) costs about 2.7k views/day — the story currently gets ~23.
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.
