Cleric's Privateer Coat of Infiltration unfurls on the rack, a study in contrasts: midnight wool that drinks the lamplight, smoked leather at the shoulders, and brass fittings that catch a spark of imagination as you tilt your head. The fabric bears a dense, almost waxed texture that smooths against the skin, resistant to spray and wind, yet soft enough to cloak a quick turn of the wrist. Its color shifts between blue-black and storm-gray, depending on the angle of the sun, like a tide-worn slate catching a distant thunderhead. Along the sleeves run fine, pewter threads that trace sigils—a healer’s cross intertwined with a compass rose and a rogue’s thin line of script—suggesting a pact between mercy and misdirection. A hood sits heavy and generous, folding into the back like a rumor kept secret, while a double row of brass clasps, fashioned with the curve of a seafaring griffin, hints at something hidden beneath the lining. Inside, the lining glows a quiet crimson, as if the coat itself carries a heartbeat from a chapel-turned-coast-guard, a reminder that sanctuary and shorelines have always shared a precarious border. The pockets are a pocketful of histories: a map-turned-pocket-map sewn into the seam, a hidden button-down panel for a compact toolset, and a discreet inner pouch that once held tokens or letters that needed to travel unseen. The lore, threaded into its seams, tells of a cleric who walked a shipboard world—parishioner and privateer alike—learning to speak softly, to move with the sway of decks and do what must be done beneath a gaze that suspects everything. It is said the coat was commissioned by a chapel’s quartermaster who traded prayers for passage, a relic that learned to coexist with both the gospel and the gun. In the world it now inhabits, the coat isn’t merely clothing; it’s a signal, a pledge, a whispered promise that a person can slip through the noise and leave only a ripple in the wake. Players who wear it often speak of a certain poise—of a way the fabric seems to hush the rustle of a crowded market, how the hood folds down just enough to reveal a calm, watchful eye. It’s less about flashy stats and more about the story you carry into a room where eyes search for weakness and mercy forges a different kind of strength. The coat invites a particular cadence to a mission: approach, listen, reveal just enough to let truth breathe, then move on before wonder becomes trouble. I watched a trader lean close to a display, fingers tracing the sigils as if testing a map’s truth. The price tag whispered through the chatter, and soon the talk turned to the Saddlebag Exchange, where skippers, scribes, and scavengers share the market’s weather. There, under a canopy of cloth and copper, the Cleric’s Privateer Coat of Infiltration found its next chapter—priced not merely in coins, but in stories traded, in favors promised, in the chance to walk unseen through a world that never truly sleeps. The coat rests again on a peg, but its echo travels with whoever shoulders it, a living reminder that every shoreline holds both a haven and a corridor between rooms, between mercy and concealment.