Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24267097-20161026022806

Team SSSN was designed very early on, even before Team JNPR.[5]

In an interview with Afterbuzz TV, writers Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross revealed that Salem's concept was done before the concepts for Team SSSN.[2]  At the first RWBY Panel at RTX 2016, they estimated that she was the ninth character designed (after Teams RWBY and JNPR).[3]  