Thread:NoFourthWall/@comment-9289481-20150206212957/@comment-4814545-20150210035939

You aren't talking about creating a mythos or a verse - you are actually talking about worldbuilding. When you worldbuild, you basically create a new world for your characters to inhabit - e.g. Middle-Earth, Narnia, Shannara. These are places that the authors specifically created the laws and rules and lands and languages and they are not open source.

The Fear Mythos isn't fanfiction, because fanfiction is basically playing in someone else's sandbox. The Fear Mythos is a sandbox of itself - we've created a bunch of monsters and anyone is free to use them or interpret them (I suppose you could call this fanfiction of a sort, but as the fans are the ones that created it, I'm not sure that would apply).

If you want the Arkn Mythos to be connected to the Fear Mythos, that's fine. If you want the Arkn Mythos to be a closed universe, which can only be written by some authors, that's also fine. Not everything connected to the Fear Mythos must be open source.

But calling what you doing "greater" than the Fear Mythos or that writers are "leeching" off of your creations just makes you sound pretentious and kind of douchebaggy. Sorry.