Item from The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
A cloak of shadow woven by Kvothe with Felurian's guidance in the Fae realm. It drinks in light, shifts with movement, and makes the wearer difficult to see — not invisible, but close.
The shaed is one of the few objects Kvothe brought back from the Fae, and it carries that realm's strangeness with it. Felurian began weaving it from shadow itself, and Kvothe — in a moment of naming that he barely understood — called the wind to catch starlight and moonlight into the fabric, making it something neither Felurian nor he had intended. It is beautiful and deeply unsettling. In the mortal world, it functions as a practical advantage: wearing it in shadow or darkness makes Kvothe nearly impossible to spot. But it is also a reminder that he walked in the Fae and came back changed, carrying a piece of that place on his shoulders.
Not quite fabric, not quite shadow. It flows like dark water when still and seems to swallow light at the edges. In dim conditions it makes the wearer blur into the background; in darkness, they nearly vanish. It feels like wearing a piece of night.
Also known as: the shaed, shadow cloak