by Elk_Scott
Lygismos: To bend without breaking. Zeus is dead. The unforeseen consequences wreak havoc across Ancient Greece. Heroes, gods and monsters struggle to find a place in this new world, a world inhospitable to the different. You are the monster, you are the hero, and you are the god through the second person point of view, and together with these legendary figures you explore love, loss and trauma in a world putting itself back together. Schedule: Story releases biweekly on Mondays at 11:11 AM, CST. What To Expect: - Second Person POV - Queer love and queer struggles - Monster/human romance - Historical dark fantasy - Hope within the dark themes - Please heed all content warnings. If it's mentioned, it's there. What Not To Expect: - Perfectly accurate adaptation of Greek mythology (artistic license used liberally) - AI in any capacity: this story is 100% human written and 100% human edited. All visuals are 100% human made.
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 8 Oct 2026, 09:18 UTC
Entry forecast updated 8 Oct 2026, 09:18 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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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 5–9 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
