Elder's Recommendation

The Elder's Recommendation is an item needed to level up a guild to level 5.

Elders

The elders are other players of the game, chosen by the devs to be elders. Once a guild reaches level 4, the guild leader has to write the text "Elder's Recommendation" in their main castle chat. Once this is done the Captain Arthur bot (@ChatWarsArthurBot) answers with this message:

Well, well... Looks like you need the Elder to guide you on the path of a true leader. Try to find eldestElder from Butterfly Castle.

The following task is to find and contact this elder. Once the guild leader contacted them, the elder will give them a riddle or puzzle to solve before giving them the final task.

The Elder's task

The final task is to find the earlooms of a specific castle. The amount that is needed varies and the castle from which they are gathered is randomly chosen from one of their allied castles ( Moonlight Castle seems to be exempt from this). Each guild member that successfully attacks the respective castle, one earloom is awarded to the guild storage which can be found with the command /g_stock_misc. Once the required number of earlooms is reached, the guild receives the Elder's Recommendation and is able to level up.