by victorblack
I was born forty-five thousand years before the world learned to count its own age and I died for the first time before the afterlife had been invented. I have worn hundreds of names through the ages, some given, some chosen, some I liked, some I hated. As I watch the stars die, one truth remains: I am This Neanderthal.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 16 Oct 2026, 13:18 UTC
Entry forecast updated 16 Oct 2026, 13:18 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: Historical → Sci-fi → Romance → Drama → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Historical + Sci-fi + Drama + Romance + Adventure (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
#1403 of 2,904 · 1353 below RS #50
By genre
beats 94% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 34% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
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 lifetime.
