<p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">On January 7th, 1997, Tibia was born. My assumption is somewhere in between November 2001-December 2002 is when you had to pick a vocation before leaving Rookgaard. My heart is leaning towards when they introduced the Oracle in December 2002 where you HAD to pick a vocation and location. I do not have experience during this time line so I cannot say this 100% certainty. But there was a time where Tibia had no Rookgaard or vocations. I wish I could provide you more but this is what I came up with based on my research:</span></span></p><p><span research:</span></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">In the first quarter of Tibia's second year, the magic system was created and characters received skills and vocations. Also the mail system and depots were implemented, just to name a few things. In May 1998, <strong style="color:#9e0d0d">Tibia <strong>Tibia Beta 4.0</strong> went online.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">During the first 5 years of Tibia, the map was extended greatly. In the beginning, Tibia had not been much larger than Thais. When <strong style="color:#9e0d0d">Tibia <u>When <strong>Tibia 6.4</strong> went live in November 2001, the newbie island Rookgaard had already been added, added</u>, and the mainland had been extended immensely. It already included Kazordoon, the Green Claw Swamp, the Jakundaf Desert, Femor Hills, the Orc Fortress, Ab'Dendriel, the Ice Islands, and the Fields of Glory, for example. And with this 6.4 update, Edron became a part of Tibia.</span></span></p><p><span Tibia.</span></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><em>Source: https://www.tibia.com/news/?subtopic=newsarchive&id=3777&fbegind=1&fbeginm=1&fbeginy=2000&fendd=9&fendm=2&fendy=2020&flist=11111111</em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><img alt="The Oracle" data-image-key="The_Oracle.gif" data-image-name="The Oracle.gif" src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/tibia/images/0/02/The_Oracle.gif/revision/latest?cb=20080102103715&path-prefix=en" style="height:72px; width:78px">They introduced The Oracle in December 2002:</span></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Leaving style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><u>Leaving Rookgaard now means talking to an oracle which asks you for your desired profession and the town you want to go to. This should help distributing players evenly among the towns.</span></span></p></blockquote><p><span towns</u>.</span></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><em>Source: https://www.tibia.com/news/?subtopic=newsarchive&id=173&fbegind=1&fbeginm=1&fbeginy=2000&fendd=9&fendm=2&fendy=2020&flist=11111111</em></span></span></p>