by LioraThyr
Beneath endless grey ash, I’ve buried my true identity as the Silver-Crowned heir for sixteen quiet years. I only wanted to live as a nobody fortune teller - until a dying elf dragged my family’s bloody secret back to me. The tyrant Emerald Queen locked my sister away to hunt my ancient power, the magic that can tear open the gate between the living and the dead. On my desperate quest across the cursed wasteland, I cross paths with Keth’ras, the Queen’s most feared silver-eyed general sent to capture me. He’s supposed to drag me to the throne, yet he abandons everything to stand at my side. Buried betrayals, four centuries of court ruin, and a prophecy that five chosen souls alone can break the queen’s iron reign await us. What starts as bitter hatred between us blooms into a love forged from loss. Now I must choose: unleash the ash’s ancient power, or sacrifice myself to free everyone trapped in this dying grey world?
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:08 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.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
2%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Drama → Romance → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Drama + Romance (1%).
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
#6179 of 12,150 · 6129 below RS #50
By genre
beats 76% of similar stories
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