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In a world shaped by gods, sacrifice, and the unbroken rhythm of the Fifth Sun, power is not taken—it is given in blood.
Nipetaw: Blood of the Fifth Sun is a historical dark fiction series set in the heart of the Mexica world, where faith binds empires and the earth itself remembers what men disturb. When an ancient force is uncovered far from Tenochtitlan, something older than ritual begins to move—carried in soil, in breath, and in the choices of those who believe they serve the gods.
As warriors, priests, and rulers confront a threat they cannot name, the line between offering and destruction begins to blur. What was meant to sustain the sun may instead bring about its undoing.
This is a story of belief, consequence, and the cost of awakening what should have remained buried.
From the Boxcar – Weekly Dispatch
Tales of the Republic: Origins
This week from the boxcar, we’re not stopping at a single place. We’re looking back to where it all began, because before the Republic stood, there were stories that shaped it. This is Tales of the Republic: Origins, the foundation of everything that follows.
There are three more books in the American arc that build that foundation, each one showing how the country broke and what kind of people rose from it. We begin with Sons of the Collapse, where Hunter and Harley Lukas, twin brothers from a Virginia holler, try to survive a nation sold to the UN under promises of safety that never reached them.
Through their journey, we move along the edges of the Harmony Zones and into the lives of those who refused to bend. Loss shapes them, but so does the discovery that something still remains worth defending, even in a country that no longer belongs to its people.
Then comes The Infection, where what began in Europe reaches American soil and changes the fight entirely. A virus spreads fast, and millions fall, forcing Danny and the others into a battle that is no longer about control, but survival, as old enemies begin to reconsider their place in a world facing extinction.
After that, we follow DeShawn on a more personal path, searching for something lost long ago. His journey carries us deeper into what remains of a broken country, where survival is tied not only to staying alive, but to memory, purpose, and what a man chooses to carry forward.
From there, the story moves across the ocean into the European arc, stories written long before their time to be told. We witness the war through Poland and the Czech Republic, through Germany’s fall, and through the desperation that takes hold as the world fractures under pressure.
We see the release of the virus and the moment everything changes, including the rise of patient zero and a priest whose sacrifice gives the world time. We follow a man who rises to unite a divided people against those who prey on the weak, even as an older enemy moves to finish what it started.
Beyond that, we walk alongside Ivor Petrovic, Supreme Ruler of the UCN, as he wages his campaign to bring order to a dying world. At the same time, the son of Olaf Gudson Bjorn carries his father’s legacy while searching for a cure to ADIV-16, a disease that has already reshaped everything.
That search leads to its beginning, its true origin, and into Project UROD, the birthplace of ADIV-16. Beneath the surface, survivors endure while something new emerges, a mutation unlike anything seen since the start of the war, forcing the future to take shape whether the world is ready or not.
And after all of that, there is one final stop left on the line. The last book has not been written yet, and that is where I’ll leave things for now.
These are the stories that built the Republic before it ever stood. The tracks are already laid. Now it’s time to ride them.
— Gary Bowman
From the Boxcar
About the author
Raised in rural Virginia and shaped by faith, family, and hard work, Gary Bowman writes stories about ordinary people facing extraordinary worlds.
