Thread:Dr0Shadow/@comment-9289481-20131020122023/@comment-1988716-20131020132259

Yeah, there's a teensy bit of controversy (about as much "controversy" as our little mythos can get outside of The Great Rapture Debate of '13) over whether or not Fear Candidates should even be a thing. Because there's the school of thought-- including me-- that thinks there is no official list of Fears, as long as it's a "Fear" in a story then it is a "Fear" anywhere else. This is how the series bible operates, too.

But then on the other side of the fence, if we let anything become a Fear, it would be harder to moderate and regulate and keep track, and plus we're worried about our image as a mythos sometimes. This is why we took The Slender Man off of the bible/Wiki list; having him there made us look like we were just riding off his coattails when really our original Fears should have the focus.

BUT AS IT STANDS, "Candidates" become "Fears" when they get a page on the series bible. And pages get made over time, usually after the Fear has been written into a lot of blogs with creative interpretation, and after a fair amount of art has been drawn of the Fear. ...and when we bible writers finally get around to making the pages.