I believe it did. I think Gottlieb and co. have said it was meant to culminate and Sloan to die much earlier. They knew the larger story they were doing at least by '93. Robin Strasser has credited herself for going to Erika, talking about the roots of DID lying in abuse, and then claims they went as a duo to Michael Malone to pitch the Victor reveal, which Robin later regretted because she felt it was best that Dorian be the one who killed Victor. Robin was back in early '93, so assuming she's accurate and not getting her facts fuzzy (which can happen) the timeline would be then.
You can see hints of the story as early as summer '93 at least, IMO. In the 25th anniversary episodes in July, in order to save C.J. and Al they have to tear down the walls to re-access Victor's secret room, hidden for many years since the '80s (which will then figure into the DID story in 1995). Viki has an intense, visceral and almost terrified reaction to this which seems too much (and which mirrors how she reacts when Dorian lays everything out for her in early '95). I think that was one of the first pennies to drop.
And yeah, as a kid who grew up watching Dark Shadows on the Sci-Fi Channel at the same time as I was watching OLTL in the '90s there were a lot of gothic similarities. The fact that the Viki/Dorian story stretched back 20+ years fascinated me and was a big part of what had me hooked on the show.
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