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{{Creature
| image       = [[File:Protective Shardra.jpg|250px|Cloakers on the attack]]
| name        = Cloaker
| type        = [[Aberration]]
| subtype     = 
| challenge   = 5
| environment = Underground
| alignment   = {{Alignment grid/CN}}
| adjective   = 
| imagesof    = cloakers
| source      = [[Pathfinder Bestiary]]
| page        = 47
}}

'''Cloakers''', or '''fulthrethus''', look like monstrous [[manta ray]]s that have long tails that end in a bony whip. Horns beside their heads end in thumb-like claws and are as black as their oversize skin. Their underside is pale and it contains a fang-filled mouth and two red eyes. Their wings spread farther than a grown man can reach, and they fly quickly at an average quality.

Cloakers were created by [[alghollthu]]s in order to spy on their [[Azlanti]] thralls. Loyal Azlanti leaders were rewarded with cloaker bodyguards and assassins.

When the alghollthus destroyed [[Old Azlant]], they cast out the cloakers, who fled to the [[Darklands]]. Most aquatic cloakers returned to serve the alghollthus, but the remainder informally serve the [[Great Old Ones]].

Cloakers in the Darklands are equally distributed between [[Sekamina]] and [[Orv]]. Cloakers tend to avoid [[Nar-Voth]] due to its proximity to the surface and its many [[humanoid]] settlements.

Cloakers may have tattoos that resemble [[Varisian tattoo]]s, but the source of the cloakers' tattoos is a much different and much older in origin.<ref>{{Cite book/Dungeon Denizens Revisited|14}}</ref>

There are several variant types of cloakers, from amphibious, to assassin, fungoid, halfbreed, priest, shadowbrood, stinger, vampire, and webspinner.<ref>{{Cite book/Dungeon Denizens Revisited|13-24}}</ref>

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[[Category:Aberrations]]
[[Category:CR 5 creatures]]
[[Category:Chaotic neutral creatures]]
[[Category:Underground terrain creatures]]