by XOliverReid
This isn't traditional fantasy. Hannibal, Missouri is an alternate-history industrial thriller set in an America that isn't quite the America you know. It's a story about a city. Its people. Its families. Its politics. Its violence. Its secrets. There will be no convenient system to explain what is happening. No prophecy telling you who to root for. No guaranteed progression path. Instead, you'll have to learn Hannibal the same way its characters do: by surviving it. It's steampunk with grime in the gears. If you're looking for a conventional Royal Road progression story, this probably isn't it. There are no character sheets.No levels.No skill trees.No system messages.No chosen hero waking up with a cheat ability. If you're looking for something strange, dark, character-driven, and unlike the usual, then... Welcome to Hannibal. Welcome to Aethenere
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 5 Oct 2026, 07:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 5 Oct 2026, 07:58 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
3%
Likely threshold order: Comedy → Psychological → Drama → Action → Main.
Leading bundle: Comedy + Psychological + Drama + Action (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
#865 of 1,277 · 815 below RS #50
By genre
beats 58% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 27% 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 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
