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How are the hourglasses supposed to be set?
1 of 8: The clue you need is here in the monastery, up in the offices area.
2 of 8: The office with the dead cardinal in it doesn't have anything useful, so try the one at the end of the hall. Its door is also open.
3 of 8: Check out the large painting that's on the wall behind the desk.
4 of 8: Try its various hotspots to see what you can find out.
5 of 8: Actually, the hourglass info you need is in the bottom two corners of the painting frame, not on the painting itself.
6 of 8: Try using that clue with the angel statues.
7 of 8: You don't even have to figure out which angel is which in the painting since their hourglass settings are the same.
8 of 8: On each statue, make the left hourglass stand upright with most of its sand in the bottom, and the right hourglass lie on its side with most of its sand on the right.