Chronicle has taken inspiration from a sprawling archive of other works. Below are a selection. Note that some works on this page contain themes not compliant with Chronicle's Conduct and Themes Policy.

• Jorge Luis Borges, especially ‘The Library of Babel’ and ‘The Circular Ruins’ (short stories)
• The Elder Scrolls, especially Morrowind (video game series)
• Susanna Harvey's Orbital (novel)
• Ursula K. Le Guin, especially The Dispossessed (novel)
• Disco Elysium (video game)
• Pentiment (video game)
• Terry Pratchett's Discworld (novels)
• The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow (historical anthropology/archaeology)
• Planescape (tabletop setting)
• Shadowrun: Dragonfall (video game)
• China Mieville's Bas-Lag (novel series)
• Rachel Hartman's Seraphina (novel series)
• Edward Wilson-Lee's The Grammar of Angels (literary history)
• Epic poetry, including:
  • Enūma Eliš
  • The Odyssey
  • The Aeneid
  • Paradise Lost
  • The work of William Blake
• Medieval texts, including:
  • Cywyddau Brud (a genre of medieval poetry)
  • The Prophecy of Britain
  • The Estoria de España
• Society games past, including:
  • //Ventures// (especially the Myths and Legends Project and the focus on information collection and disparate cultural world building)
  • Fated (again, in its focus on disparate cultures and the nature of history)
  • //Contingency// (the theme of the scope of history, and particularly the arcs of some of the PCs whose players are now GMs…)
  • White Raccoon (in its focus on folklore and storytelling)
  • //Conviction// (in its portrayal of the intersection of religion and politics)
  • //Scripture// (primarily the portrayal of gods living among their worshippers)
• Access To Memory (archival software)