For the few people asking why someone would care about this mount when the game has "so many" other mounts to choose from. When was the last time you played another mmo? This game is severely lacking in mount options compared to pretty much any mmo that includes mounts that has been released in the last decade. There are only 7 mounts currently. Two that everyone gets from story mode. Two that you get when you spend real world money. Two that are unavailable to anyone who didn't play 1.0 at the right times. And one that is job specific. That is extremely lacking by modern mmo standards.

I personally think exclusive items should stick to items that are variants of regularly available items, rather than completely unique items with nothing even remotely similar to them. A rare chocobo color? That's perfect. But a unique mount of a very popular and prominent creature without anything remotely similar available? I think mmos generally stay away from that for good reason.