by Daehan_Reads
When three teens pick up mysterious trinkets at a pirate festival, they're pulled into a storm-swept world of sea monsters, cursed relics, and ruthless captains who blur the line between hero and villain. Armed with a sword that crackles with lightning and a past they don't understand, Matthew, Viv, and Jess find themselves aboard a pirate ship with a crew of outlaws who might just be their only allies. But the deeper they sail into the Otherworld, the clearer it becomes: nothing here is what it seems. Not the relics. Not the legends. Not even the people they trust most. As betrayal looms, a portal home may lie within reach, if it doesn't destroy them first.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 3 Oct 2026, 22:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 3 Oct 2026, 22:08 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
5%
Two or more lists
4%
Likely threshold order: Drama → Romance → Adventure → Action → 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
#4306 of 12,465 · 4256 below RS #50
By genre
beats 18% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 18% 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.
