The currently active narrative allows you to get cloaks by helping kill Shadow Lords in one of three locations in Tokuno: Desert North of Zento, Mount Sho (Lave Mountain), and Lady of the Snow Tundra. The top three damagers get a cloak. You can use blackrock to whack it extra hard. I have never done this, but I believe it may related to the Armageddon spell. Perhaps someone can add to this thread for clarification?
Once you have a cloak of corruption you can transform it into one of three cloaks by collecting threads and turning them in with the cloak for a replacement cloak.
Thread of Thought: These make the cloak of Power when you trade in a cloak of corruption and ten threads at the Seer in front of the Lyceaum near Moonglow. To get them kill(?!) the forsaken by casting exorcism on same screen as a forsaken soul. Requires 99 spirit speak. Drop rate is around 1/2. Corrupted Souls appear not to like you when you farm thread of life. They will run accross the screen to show their displeasure, skipping over other, closer targets to get to you. Best to use a stealth necromancer and bring a melee character with you to deal with the Corrupted. They tend to eat my necromancer.
Thread of Life: Can be turned in for the Cloak of Life (+3 Str, +1HPR -- sort of sucky IMHO) at the seer in front of the Yew Abbey. To get the threads use spirit speak skill near a restless soul. They seem to like it. You just need a successful attempt at SS, so you can do it with relatively little skill. Corrupted don't seem to care for this either.
Thread of Fate: Can be turned in for the Cloak of Death (+3 each to DCI, HCI, SDI) at the seer between the stable and the tinker in Serpents Hold. To get them kill corrupted souls. They appear to have no poison resist and not many hit points, but they hit pretty hard, and sometimes they will stand at a distance and cast. They appear to use magery spells and have a hard melee hit that can armor ignore for up to 40 pts. My sampire doesn't have any problem with them. Drop rate seems slower than on the other two.
