CM Liamas already confirmed that it was an April's Fool joke.
heres the response in full: https://www.tibia.com/forum/?action=thread&postid=39382691#post39382691
In my opinion, would be realy interesting to explore the tibia lore with new conversations with all npc's again, trying to discovery new tips and tricks to solve some of the oldest tibia mysteries that we have until today...
Such a joke is actually pretty close to reality :). Large language models (think ChatGPT / Bard / Gemini / Llama) are increasingly often provided as simple services to companies. In a couple of years, it would be very easy for them to include this in the game. The downside, however, is that these models often make things up: so their output cannot be considered canon.This is an example conversation I've had a while ago: https://gemini.google.com/share/41175a5663e8Note, that these responses were partially cherry-picked, as the service gives you option to regenerate an answer. The conversation with Tibianus is a bit monotonic at the start, but a wonderful part is he adds details from the world!
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