Thread:Shayde Shadow/@comment-24.64.110.21-20141227072038/@comment-28071061-20141227075015

Shayde isn't the creator of The Rake, nor is anyone else on this wiki, so asking him for permission is kind of pointless. Hell, he isn't even a member of the Fear Mythos anymore so the chances of him ever responding are slim at best. The Rake is only a part of the Fear Mythos due to his inclusion in EverymanHYBRID, which pretty much established his connection with Slender Man. In other words, every single story that features the Rake aside from the original creepypasta by Bryan Somerville is complete fanfiction. DJay probably put it best with this comment he made on The Rake page:

"We did not create The Rake. The Rake does not fall under Creative Commons 3.0 (which most of the Fears are). By definition, The Rake falls under a copyright of its creator-- that's how copyright law generally works, unless the creator was from somewhere with distinctly different laws. Generally, once you have produced something it is copyrighted to you unless you state otherwise.

''Having said all that, The Rake's currently in my draft for the Rapture book and that's gonna be commercialized, so I'd be a hypocrite if I told you not to do it. It's more just that there is no definitive answer, unless you change The Rake substantially enough for it to be its own entity. We just don't know. We cannot give an answer on this because it is not our answer to give."''

Like I said before, the Rake's creator is name Bryan Somerville and your best shot at contacting him is messaging him on SomethingAwful. He originally submitted it there and chances are he's still a member seeing how you have to pay to become a member of that site. So at least it's not a complete dead end if you want to ask for permission. With that said, I Necrocity seems like a cool concept and I'm excited for it's release.