I prefer The Fears over Alex's Dread Scale in the Magnus Multiverse.
Now, I would like to stress that this isn't some literary analysis or and attack on Protocol.
I am In LOVE and am anxiously awaiting what comes next. Getting to decipher the Mad Ramblings of a genius! I love the scale for what it is and the purpose it serves.
But The Dread Scale is... inflexible. What did Alex say, Accurate to some decibel or other. That level of accuracy requires a level of strictness, inflexibility.
The Fear Entities however; I do not know how common knowledge it is that chemically, there is no difference between sexual arousal and Fear. I have my theories regarding this...
Death, Pain, Hopelessness, Wrongness can still be reinterpreted for "arousal" but it limits the scope of what arousal can incompass. Where it capture the full scope of fear and dread, it lack everywhere else.
The Taxonomy of The Fears suffers from the opposite. Too by feel, the colors bleed and can leave things to interpretation.
But it's why I* like it. It let's me change the lense.
The Joy of The Lonely
The Comforts of The Web
The Thrill of The Eye
The Awe of The Corruption (Good Primordial Soup)
The Trust of The Hunt
The Comedy of The Desolation
The Revolution of The Sluaghter (A "Senseless" drive to not just survive)
There is a flexibility that is fun to play with.