The Story follows Alice, a woman with a traumatic past from the 'New city', and Hatcher, a man with a blood-stained past from the 'old city' as they escape an asylum in a Victorian era world where magic is interwoven in everything but suppressed and banned. The two of them make their way out, looking to hunt the white Rabbit.
The Chronicles of Alice provides examples of:
- Adaptation Name Change: The character known as The Mad Hatter is known as Hatcher here.
- Adaptation Species Change: Creatures that were animals in the books, like the Cheshire Cat, The Caterpillar, and The Walrus are human.
- Affably Evil: The Cheshire Cat is polite, willing to converse and help, but just as dangerous as the other bosses of the Old City.
- Age Lift: Alice was a very young girl in the books by Lewis Carroll. Here she is explicitly 26.
- Amnesiac Hero: When the story first starts, neither Alice nor Hatcher are completely sure of their past to varying degrees.
- Berserk Button
- For Alice, threatening Hatcher is a good way to get on her bad side. Just ask the Caterpillar.
- For Hatcher, threatening anyone that he cares about, including and especially Alice.
- Cannibal Larder: Hatcher and Alice enter the base of The Walrus by his walk-in fridge, filled to the brim with corpses of girls, including Dolly.
- Combat Pragmatist: Alice has no real experience with weapons and fighting, having grown up in the New City. She just goes for the tried and true 'Stick sharp object into the soft bits'. It usually works.
- The Dog Bites Back
- The Walrus gets ripped to shreds by a rabbit that he had used magic to grow and used in cage matches.
- The White Rabbit is strangled by Dor, who was aged into an old woman by him.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Alice was sold out to The White Rabbit by her closest friend Dor.
- Heroic Lineage: Alice is a descendant of the magician that sealed away the Jabberwocky
- In the Blood
- Hatcher's family has an ability to sniff out magic as well as see the future as well as possible futures.
- Alice's magic is passed down through her family. Her ancestor was an old friend of the Jabberwocky.
- Secret Identity: Alice has a fake name while traveling through the Old City. No one buys it after they get a look at her scar.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: How the original Magician defeated the Jabberwocky. He sealed the monster under what later became The Asylum. When he escaped, Alice sealed him in a glass jar in her pocket, where he was eventually forgotten.
- Sweet Polly Oliver: For Alice's safety she travels in the old city, dressed as a boy.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Hatchet gains the ability to turn into a wolf and back human again at will in The Red Queen.
