I have an old account that I asked support staff to unlock for me. The character's age is 2553 days today. Meaning it was created roughly before Tuesday, November 3, 2009.
Character has the spirit sword, Eiry, The significant quests: (In Tutorial Tab) [Tutorial] Rescue Resident, [Tutorial] Nao's Letter of Introduction, [Tutorial] Go to School. (In Basic Tab) [Guide] Select Advent of the Goddess Renewed, [Return Incentive] Explorers League Patronage.
The "Rescue Resident" quest rewards 3 AP, so I am guessing it will lead to me doing the tutorial quests that existed prior to the most recent revamp of beginner quests which are led by Lorna. Nao's Letter of Introduction is possibly an old one, and will lead to old quest followups. I have no doubt that going through these quests will have to continue to where where I say goodbye to Eiry. Maybe you'd like to know Eiry's dialogue?
Upon logging into the character I only had Combat Mastery skill. Learned sword mastery by equiping Eiry and Shuriken Mastery by picking up a dropped one. I remember Mabinogi in G1 did not have any quests to teach you the skills, you had to learn all your basic combat skills through Tir Chonaill NPCs using the Skills keyword. Then they changed Nao's Letter of Recommendation into being the start of a quest chain that made you learn Defense, Smash, Counter Attack, and Windmill.
Remnants and information from the past is scarce, so if there's any way my use of this account can help, let me know.
Also of note, I have an Elf and a Giant character on the account that I haven't logged in to check yet. When I logged in to my human I was taken straight to Nao who explained to me that I need to choose a Talent. If you were going to use this for an Aura server you'd have to have it so players can exist without talents at an early Generation, and then when the server operator turns on the generation that added talents, you would have players go through this talk with Nao on first log in.