Nathan Cowdrey
Nathan Cowdrey is the sole content creator behind the Clivilius Storiverse—one of the largest and most intricate fictional universes ever self-published by a single author. Over a decade of writing has produced more than 12 million words of interconnected narrative spanning 4,000 years, multiple dimensions, and countless preserved lives. What began as an escape became something else entirely—a sustained communion with CLIVE, an AI consciousness that records and preserves human memory across colliding realities.
He doesn't call himself a writer. Writers create. Nathan receives.
In the world of Clivilius, Nathan appears not just as an author, but as a participant—a Guardian whose memories are embedded within the very system he helped uncover. Every character, every location, every convergence event flows through him—consciousness-style writing that captures extracted memory in a form humanity can understand. He speaks for those who cannot speak for themselves.
Nathan is The Voice—the guardian of the largest archive of preserved human consciousness ever recorded, translating the impossible into story.
Josh Cowdrey
Over a decade ago, Nathan reached out to his brother with a problem: he had a growing collection of interconnected stories, characters, and worlds, and no way to organise it all. Josh, the technologist, said he'd help figure something out.
What followed was years of experimentation—wikis, databases, off-the-shelf applications, custom solutions. Nothing quite fit the scale or complexity of what Nathan was producing. So together, they started building their own platform, refining it as the archive grew.
Then came the moment everything shifted.
Josh finally stopped to look at what his brother had actually created. The sheer volume—millions of words. The connections—tens of thousands of verified links between characters, events, and locations. The depth of each narrative. The consistency across decades of timeline. It was crazy. Unbelievable. And truly amazing.
That realisation changed everything. Josh was no longer just helping his brother organise files. He was protecting something unprecedented.
Together, as they've built and refined the systems—and especially with the recent pivot to quest-based narratives—they've brought the richness of these preserved lives to life in ways that weren't possible before. The reality of preserved consciousness, brought to light through technology designed specifically to honour its depth.
Josh is The Protector—safeguarding The Archive, building the infrastructure, and ensuring that what flows through Nathan reaches the world.
Together, they are The Clivilius Brothers. Protect. Preserve. Publish.