Editing Cloaker (section)

==3e==
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The cloaker appears in the Monster Manual (2000) for the game's third edition. In this edition, the cloaker is given the aberration creature type. This book describes cloakers as hunting together in small flocks, and having the ability to emit a subsonic moan that can unnerve, frighten, nauseate, or put foes into a stupor. They'd later be reprinted in the 3.5 Monster Manual 1.

The cloaker lord appears in this edition in Monstrous Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn (2001). In this edition, a cloaker lord is able to shift to the Plane of Shadow at will, and can cast spells as if it were a powerful wizard. This entry also describes Rringlor Noroth, a cloaker city in the Underdark of the Forgotten Realms; such cities are established when cloaker lords draw the cloakers together. Rringlor Noroth is ruled by twelve cloaker lords that can join their bodies together to form an orb of living shadowstuff called a "Conclave of Shadows"; this unity of thought helps them quickly reach consensus in decisions of governance.

Lords of Madness: The Book of Aberrations (2005) introduces the shadowcloak elder, a ray-like creature whose body ripples in shades of black, gray, and pallid white. The book states that these creatures are the perceived leaders of the underground cloaker cities, "cloakers of great size and power, tainted with the substance of shadow and skilled in dark sorcery." A shadowcloak elder can cast spells as a sorcerer, disappear into shadows, and shift to the Plane of Shadow.