
by Polo8022
Zev, a wolf captain, once charted the farthest island of the Vastis Ocean. Nobody cared. Years later, the former captain repairs furniture for coin while his map ends at a blank western edge, and the oldest songs of his people still insist Father Moon waits somewhere beyond it. When the First Marshal refuses to fund another voyage, Zev turns to merchants instead. He promises them new lands, new markets and a western route beyond the reach of their rivals. He doesn't know whether any of those things exist. He only knows that he cannot die at the workbench. What begins as a search for Father Moon becomes a journey into unknown seas, unfamiliar civilizations, and the dangerous distance between discovering a new world and deciding what it is worth. P.S. Beneath the wolves, gods and old songs, this is hard science fiction. The science is sciencing.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 4 Oct 2026, 21:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 4 Oct 2026, 21:38 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.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
4%
Two or more lists
3%
Likely threshold order: Psychological → Drama → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Psychological + Drama + Adventure + 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
#8834 of 12,468 · 8784 below RS #50
By genre
beats 90% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 63% 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.