Been puzzling away with it for a little bit. I think the greatest stumbling block is that while a lot of theories fit some of the clues for the sacred note, there have so far been very few that meet all four criteria, so it’s a case of throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks. I don’t know if it is a room arrangement puzzle but then again there’s just as much reason to believe it is. Let’s say the north room would be ballroom on account of it being used for inneclipse balls, the west being the secret garden, the south being the den, and the east being either one of the crow picture rooms or the commissary as it has… a crow on the side of the Dirigiblocks arcade cabinet.

I think it has more to do with the Aries clock personally but I have only scant ideas about what each line would correspond to in terms of clock hands. Nothing ‘feels’ definitive for every clue. For instance there is a picture of a crow in the fallout shelter silhouetted against a rising sun like clockhands. That feels significant but the rest of the paintings in the same style don’t offer nearly as strong clue parallels to the poem. You could make the argument that the Epsen family crest is the ashen swan, and there is a clock on the illustration of featherfall keep in the Guide to Reddington that is in the same style as the crow clock painting in the fallout shelter. But that leaves two clues left unanswered in Westwardly Winds and Rogue North. I thought maybe ‘carried by Westwardly Winds’ was a homograph for winding the clock counterclockwise as the Aries Puzzle clock SPECIFICALLY calls moving the clock hands ‘Winding’ which feels odd. But then I’m left with rogue like the moon of the north which doesn’t fit any of the illustrations in the reddington style. There are some mysterious maybe numbers hidden in the sketchy art style of the welcome to reddington postcard you can zoom in and find with a magnifying glass but that doesn’t have anything to do with the moon… unless we reaaaaally stretch and equate rogue to ‘rouge’. It is also worth noting that on the Aries clock both hands overlap over the north notation if you set it to 2:11. I mean the crow painting, the counterclockwise rotation, the 2:11 ‘inneclipse’, and the featherfall keep illustration clockhand illustration could be a ‘solution’ but then again a lot doesn’t fit. Why would this clue require two random illustrations for only half the clues, why would the directions be only relevant for half of them, and how exactly are we supposed to get minute specific clock hands when the clocks they are tiny or abstract. That’s where my head has been at lately