The first thought to cross your mind is that you found the Elements, but maybe you haven’t figured out the Temple part.
“What exactly did you hear?” you ask Len. “I think we’re still missing something.”
“What I heard was that Redlake keeps things he can’t prove legal ownership of in his ‘Temple of the Elements’,” Len replies. “I don’t know how many intermediaries that travelled through before getting to me, so maybe there’s some important nuance that got lost along the way.”
“Can’t prove legal ownership of?” you ask. “Odd way of phrasing it. What, were you questioning a lawyer?”
“It’s not all stolen goods, some stuff has a contesting claim and he doesn’t want the other party swiping it from him,” Len explains. “That’s pretty much all I know, though. Mind, keeping all that in one place seems a bit silly to me. If someone manages to find a way inside, they can swipe more than one thing.”
That reminds you of something you overheard some theatergoers talking about. They said the Church of Nual was insisting that an ancient tablet was a holy artifact and they should have custody of it, but some businessman wouldn’t turn it over. You didn’t pay a lot of attention to the story, though, since it sounded pretty boring on the whole.
But maybe the businessman was Redlake and the tablet is somewhere in this “Temple” of his. And the one detail you do remember is what was supposedly written on the tablet – a particular religious chant from the Book of Nual.
Which strikes you as interesting because Nual’s religious chants have a tendency to include a lot of numbers. They’ll often have a repeating chorus along the lines of “fifty-three boats sailed for sixty-two days” and such. This chant might well be one of those.
So if you entered the “Elements” code, maybe that’s the “Temple” code. It’s a stretch, but you can’t think of anything to do other than try it.
Only thing is, you don’t exactly remember religious passages very well, except a few that get quoted in plays you’ve done. You do have a copy of the Book of Nual on you, because they hand the thing out everywhere in this town when the festival approaches, but it’ll take you a while to thumb through it. Might go faster if you can recall the name of the chant, though.
Now that you mention the festival, you recall the village people chanting “Thirty-three voyagers, thirty-three days, thirty-three blessings” it was called “The Litany of the Thirty-Three Voyagers”
“The pillars of the forty sorrows”
“The chant of the thousand arrows” this was about arrows shooting from the sky, binding people to the ground, unable to ever leave it
“Iron blue intention” It’s a pretty catchy song as well, that’s why you’re able to remember it