“Personality-wise, I wanted the Caretakers to feel like nuns - to feel disapproving,” Rian Johnson remembers. “But I didn’t say, ‘Make them fish people.’ That’s just the direction they ended up going in.” Returning creature effects creative supervisor Neal Scanlan recalls, “Rick Heinrichs had several early designs for Caretakers, which were rather goblin-like or Lord of the Rings-like in their initial sort of feeling. Skellig Island is a puffin island. So there was a parallel concept development: What the Caretaker looks like would also be true for their fellow island-native porgs. There has to be some feeling that, from an evolutionary perspective, the same DNA is in there. And the thinking was the Caretakers should have a more aquatic or fish-like quality to them.”