Thread Crystal Plate: PA 7, MA 7, Init 5
Warden
Rank 1 Key Knowledge: The owner must learn the item's name.
Rank 1 Research Knowledge: Fortress Eternity
Rank 1: -1 Initiative Penalty
Rank 2: +1 Mystic Armor


Rank 3 Key Knowledge: The owner must learn the item's creator.
Rank 3 Research Knowledge: Ukrima the Fist
Rank 3: -2 Initiative Penalty
Rank 4: -3 Initiative Penalty

Rank 5 Deed: The owner must return to the creator's homeland and renew the enchantment there.
Rank 5: +1 Recovery Test
Rank 6: +1 Physical Armor

Rank 7 Key Knowledge: The owner must learn who the item was created for.
Rank 7 Research Knowledge: Oquer the Hammer
Rank 7: +2 Physical Armor, +1 to any Circle for calculating Durability
Rank 8: +2 Mystic Armor, for 1 Strain: +3 to Resist Knockdown

Description: A fancy black cloak with a silk lining with many pockets. It has silver buttons and a spiderweb pattern on the lining.
Base Item: Wool Cloak
Mystic Defense: 12
Max Threads: 2
Thread Cost: Journeyman
Research 1 / Name: Haldistan's Mantle
Thread Rank 1: +1 Stealthy Stride
Thread Rank 2: +1 MD
Item History 3: The owner must learn where Haldistan got the materials for the cloak.
Research 3: He stole them.
Thread Rank 3: The owner may pull a strand of spider silk out of the cloak for use as a rope. For 3 Strain, the owner may cast Rope Ladder on the strand.
Thread Rank 4: +1 SD
Deed: The cloak has an Air Elemental inside it that can assist the owner. Appease it.
Thread Rank 5: The owner may alter the appearance of the cloak. For 1 Strain, the cloak can perfectly mimic the owner's surroundings and provide +3 to a Stealthy Stride test.
Thread Rank 6: Haldistan was known for sneaking into people's house through the chimney. The air elemental in the cloak can protect the owner from bad air and other suffocation threats.