by Aleck
Ezra only wanted to find his missing cat. Instead, he discovered a mysterious cave and something inside that should never have been touched. After a strange encounter leaves him unconscious, Ezra awakens to find that something about him has changed. When he returns home, the people he has always known as his parents no longer recognize him. With nowhere else to go and no explanation for what happened, Ezra returns to the cave searching for answers. But the cave holds secrets far beyond what he imagined. Ancient ruins. Strange creatures. A mysterious treasure known as The Bringer. And eventually… another Ezra. His life has already been turned upside down. Now he has to discover what happened to him and what he has become.
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, 16:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 3 Oct 2026, 16:08 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
4%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Mystery → Adventure → Action → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Mystery + Adventure + Action + Fantasy (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
#3999 of 12,355 · 3949 below RS #50
By genre
beats 75% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 49% 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.
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.
