NPC Spawn Issue: Phinigel Fights His Seahorse Guards

[Jdizzle]

I believe this qualifies as an NPC Spawn Issue, because this category corresponds to the following:

"NPC's that [...] do not behave socially correct (faction issues)[.]"

I've been trying to get my magician his water staff for the epic for the last few weeks and I've tallied over a dozen successful Phinigel kills. I say this only to express that I have some familiarity with this zone and this fight.

Something has happened in the past two attempts that I had not seen prior.

In the past week, I've seen Phinigel get killed by his seahorse guards twice.

It seems that if Phinigel is in close proximity to a seahorse guard, they will engage one another. Sadly, in each case this resulted in Phinigel getting killed by his seahorse guards and his corpse poofed.

Is this kind of behavior correct/expected? Surely Phinigel can't be Kill-On-Sight to his own guards, right?

If there is a log that keeps track of how Phinigel died (like, what PC or NPC gave the final blow) you could verify this. This could also just be demonstrated on the next Phinigel spawn.