by All Terrain Capybara
Magic has a cost. Some witches pay with trinkets and baubles. Others, often unwillingly, pay with their lives. Ava has her simple life as a potter's daughter stripped away after a witch devours her father. She's saved by her village's strange fortune teller, Emeraude, who realizes too late he's plunging headlong into the life he tried to escape. Now as Ava navigates the grotesque world of witchcraft and plots her revenge, Emeraude reunites with old friends and alongside them, enemies. A scion of the fallen kingdom, an idealistic witch hunter, the nobleman with a score to settle. Emeraude finds that, despite his best efforts to live in peace, the past will not forget. What to expect: - Fantasy that hearkens back to traditional folklore, like Grimm's Fairy Tales - Character-driven story - Mystery and hidden plots - A world bigger than what's on the page - Over 80k words written, and more to come. - Chapter lengths vary significantly, but range between 1-3k words. First and foremost, this is a story I've worked on for years that I hope to publish one day -- and I've put it on RR in hopes that a few people enjoy it :)
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, 02:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 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.
Not enough recent follower history to estimate a shadow rank yet.
beats 98% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 86% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
