Accidentally a Shrine Priestess

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Description

Sophie Birch wakes up to a strange blonde woman claiming Sophie promised to be her “priestess” and honestly the whole thing goes downhill from there.

Classes? Levels? Mana?

Wait – on top of all of that, this place doesn’t even have coffee?!

In which our heroine wakes up in a fantasy world and wishes she had spent more time playing video games instead of reading all of that romance manga.

Accidentallya Shrine Priestessis a cozy progression fantasy story with very light LitRPG elements. Updates on Tuesdays ~9AM PST.July 2025 Update:Hiatus ending soon... Doing a bit of cleanup this month and finally fixing all of the typos. Thank you for everyone who has kept this story in mind over the years.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Shrineling

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Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 1,865
Views: 393,106

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Community Reviews(10)

AbruptlyMysticRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Another reviewer likened this to a Hallmark movie, but to me it reads more Stardew Valley and that's a wonderful thing. Accidentally A Shrine Priestess is some good light reading; The most conflict I think we've seen so far is about what you would find in the first season of your Stawdew farm, but that suits it just fine. I do wish the main character got into her own personal conflicts a bit more often and most characters thus far have been a little one note, but I can see some potential for some juicy conflict with the shrine spirit... 👀
Overall, cute read, good vibes!
DefinitelynotaHedgehogRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It makes me want to know more, but It's written in a way that doesn't make me impatient. Interesting, slow paced, good and somewhat calming. Main character is likable.
We are getting a piece of a bigger world. This chunk is appetizing, but not in a way that will make us mad if we don't get the entire thing.
Nice, bite sized pieces that will get us full, but not fat. A true slice of life.
FullAutoAliceRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Lovely, chill, cute, sedate.
Up to ch18. Thus far our displaced shrine priestess has thoroughly wormed her way into my heart, and follow list. Well written chapters that gracefully avoid getting bogged down with info dump word building. While still providing enough information to not feel lost.
A lovely slice of life, in a strange but familiar world. Like eating a lovely pastry, left craving for more.
RydeniusRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
An enjoyable light read that's off to a nice start.
The story is an interesting departure from the usual transported-to-another-world fare in that the main character has become a shrine priestess and agreed to help a fading shrine spirit (an agreement she doesn't remember making). I'm expecting that the early part of the story (at least) will mostly involve renovating the shrine and some mystery solving.
There are classes, skills, and mana but no blue boxes as of yet. 😉
No complaints on the grammar or the style.
Characters feel alive and a bit of future drama has already been hinted at.
I'll update the review when the story has progressed enough to get a better idea where it's going. (To the author: Keep up the good work!)
Shiro-kyoRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
While it is still too early in the story to tell where this will go, I enjoyed the characters and worldbuilding. The writing is of high quality, I've not noticed any errors, grammatical or logical.
It managed to keep up my curiosity and suspense even if what happened until now was actually pretty mundane. Five stars for a strong start from me!
Thomas LawlessRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
So, this one is unusual for me to read in that it's still VERY early in it's story. Despite that, I am quite enjoying it. It's quite obviously a slice of life tale, with the central theme so far being renovating a decrepit shrine, and learning the tasks that our main character has been assigned as a Shrine Princess. Therefore, the body of the story is focused on one particular place, and the interactions of the MC with the people surrounding it. With that in mind, it's quite well done. The character's personalities seem natural, and the setting is well described and fluid. All in all a good start! I'll have more, in detail thoughts and critiques as the story progresses, but I'm happy enough with it's start. 🤪
kingdedede11Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A fairly interesting day by day story about someone who wakes up in a new work. Doesn't take too long to get to what seems to be the main fun story. Release schedule is fast paced currently, but we'll see what it is in the future.
I'm looking forward to future chapters as fast as they come.
luda305Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
So, the story archetype is one of those Hallmark channel movies where a 30-something woman moves into a decrepit mansion on the edge of a rural town (often by inheritance by a distant relative) and fixes it up while getting to know all the characters in her small community. Now, take that and replace "mansion" with "shrine" and add a little LitRPG fantasy: voila! It's slice of life in a far more comely manner than most of what you see on Royal Road.
About the setting, unlike most fantasy, this has a more 19th century rural vibe, rather than medieval. So, there's no industrialization or equivalent in the town, but the quality of life seems fairly high with far more goods than really should exist in a rural community that small unless they're getting significant imports from larger manufacturing parts.
Sophie as a character is little difficult to appreciate in the beginning. She's so middle of the road and bland. She almost comes off as ditzy, but like someone who likes to stay at home. Even from Earth perspectives, she seems surprisingly unskilled and uninformed. Like, after lamenting the lack of a cell phone calendar, she somehow lacks the perspective that people used to have paper calendars before 2007 (and many still do); it's strange. She can't cook. She can't take care of a cat. It's almost like she peaked in high school and she became a secretary at a company. So, there's that. But hey, some folks like that. And in any event, perhaps it's the passage of time or chapter count, but I've started to really appreciate her homebodiness. (As an aside, she's actually only 23, but I really think she fits the mould of a 30-something single woman).
sevensavethepostRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story is the reason trawling Rising Stars is sometimes worthwhile.
A niche little premise but thus far the interactions between characters carry it pretty well. Pretty much an alternative POV story where the protagonist is playing the part of the person who hands out the classes rather than a traditional litrpg about somebody who gets an OP class.
The client of the week structure the story seems to be employing definitely feels like it has potential to keep things interesting going forward.
JoyueguieRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
A fun story about the perils of getting wasted! Actually Sophie seems to have learned her lesson ... it just took her being (maybe) Shanghai'ed to another world to learn it. It's (so far as of Chapter 11) a light, easy story about a youngish woman who discovers her place as a shrine maiden in another world. Very light progression metrics, no heavy stats or skills or abilities yet, but they are hinted at, so we'll see!
Seems well written, grammatically correct. No real obvious spelling errors. And stylistically, the character is very much a work in progress but in a slow-burning, character driven manner. She's definitely not an OP Mary Sue.