The Sacred Cloak
| Type | Ceremonial cloak |
|---|---|
| Owner | Beatrice Tidal |
| Origin | Made from materials of all five major kingdoms of Eslura |
| Current location | The Sacred City |
| First appearance | Sacred 2: Flames of the Awakened |
The Sacred Cloak is the gold cloak handed down from each Sacred Head of Eslura to the next. It survived the sack of the Sacred City hanging in the bedroom that Amelia Lunala and a long line of Heads before her occupied, because the Nelazgians who stripped the castle of its valuables did not think much of a wardrobe.[1]
Description
The cloak is gold, and heavier than it looks. Where the fabric parts at the front the two halves meet at a clasp cut in the shape of the Sacred Symbol, and an embroidered strip runs along the outer seams in a repeating pattern of the same symbol. Its gold seam catches the light and throws glimmers onto the walls of a room. Bea, who had expected something in the order of a wizard costume, was surprised by the weight of it and thought it would have kept her warm in the snows of Galecrest.[1]
Alistair Archibald says it was made with materials drawn from all five of Eslura's major kingdoms, the Sacred City included, and that legend credits Aezaros with handcrafting it herself, although that has never been proven. He calls it a powerful and symbolic thing, passed down through many generations of Heads.[1]
The wardrobe
The cloak hung alone on a wooden rack inside a wardrobe almost twice the height of Alistair, in Amelia Lunala's old room in the ruined castle at the Sacred City. The wardrobe's face carries a large Sacred Symbol under flaking gold paint, the wood cracked and sun-faded, the hinges rusted. Opening it sent a cloud of dust rolling out across the floor. The rest of the room had been wrecked: the bed frame split into splinters, books torn apart, half the stained-glass window gone.[1]
Bea and the cloak
Alistair brought Bea to the room and told her the cloak was hers by custom. She put it on, shook the dust off, and turned to a half-broken mirror he uncovered in the corner. The reflection was not hers: her mother stood in the glass wearing the same gold cloak, mouthing her name, with gold eyes she had never had on Earth. Bea did not know at the time that the woman in the mirror and the woman whose room she was standing in were the same, and said only that she thought she was seeing things again.[1] Amelia Lunala names Beatrice Tidal as her daughter from a cell under Veskadoth some time later.[2] When the vision faded Bea turned back and Alistair saw that her own green eyes had gone gold.[1]
Her panic went into the building. The mirror burst, the floor groaned, a support beam dropped like a spear into the stone a foot from Alistair, and the bedroom split down the middle with a widening gulf of golden light between them. Alistair shouted at her to control her emotions or the castle would come down, and she answered that she did not know how.[1] What became of the cloak after the collapse is not recorded.