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The Hallow Chronicles - Book 1

A Fantasy LitRPG Book Series In The Making

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A picture of Toronto at night with magic to look like The Hallow

What Is The Hallow Chronicles?

Helena Thompson is building a dark urban fantasy series called The Hallow Chronicles — set in Toronto, the city she has lived in her entire life and apparently never fully understood until now.

A hallow is a sacred and ancient thing — a place set apart, consecrated by time and by what has happened within it, carrying a power that does not announce itself.

It lives beside us, parallel, always there but hardly ever seen. It is within Toronto's streets and buildings, beneath the PATH tunnels, through rivers, forgotten subway platforms, hidden hospital corridors, and in the castle’s secret passages. The hallow is there. It has always been there. The monsters, demons, and creatures that humanity decided were myth never actually left — they just stopped letting us see them. They retreated into the hallowed spaces within and beneath the city and waited.

The Hallow Chronicles follows an ensemble cast of completely ordinary Toronto people who stumble into the truth about their city and discover that the world they thought they knew is only half the story. It is dark and morally complex and occasionally very funny, because that is what Toronto actually is, and that is what the best stories are.

The first book is set in Toronto. Future books will expand to other cities — because every city hides a hallow. The creatures just look different depending on where you are.

Every City Hides A Hallow

Not Everyone Survives Finding Them

The Hallow Chronicles is a series that will be a dark urban fantasy LitRPG series where the real world is a lie, and survival means leveling up.

It is a progression fantasy filled with morally complex heroes, dark humor, and deadly game mechanics.

The story is currently being forged, but the gates are going to open soon for those who want a look inside.

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Join The Hallow Chronicles Adventure

Free Mini-Campaign Adventure Coming Soon

To introduce the upcoming book series, you can get on the waitlist to download our exclusive Mini-RPG Campaign below.

It will give you a small peek into the history of The Hallow through a Cyberpunk style future & allow you to be a Game Master to your own group of unlikely adventurers.

Helena Thompson's Cyberpunk RPG cover that accompanies the LitRPG she is writing
Helena Thompson's Cyberpunk RPG cover that accompanies the LitRPG she is writing

The Awakening

By Helena Leppanen (Thompson)

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