I'd actually be hard-pressed to give an exact timetable! The rough draft was done a good deal earlier than the final draft and it was something I worked on and off on a lot - scribbling a note here, revising a sentence there.



Early on I was a bit unsure where I wanted to go with his personality. I asked Vincent what he thought its personality was like and he mentioned seeing its behavior as similar to a hippogriff. While I didn't end up using the prideful side of hippogriffs, reading up on different interpretations of hippogriffs is what inspired its intense loyalty. Its timid side was a result of game mechanics - it's a bit of a glass canon and a ranged attacker, so I reasoned it would be skittish.