Piwafwi

A piwafwi was a drow cloak that granted increased powers of stealth and hiding. It came in two varieties, lesser and greater.

Description
A piwafwi was a dark-hued cloak.

Powers
A lesser piwafwi was identical in ability to a cloak of elvenkind. When the hood was drawn over the head, it increased the wearer's ability to hide.

A greater piwafwi was a piwafwi with the added property of fire resistance. It was also known as a piwafwi of fire resistance.

When the hood was drawn over the head, the wearer became almost invisible to normal sight, akin to an invisibility spell, and infravision, thanks to the heat-shielding properties of the cloak.

Some drow piwafwi cloaks that found their way to the surface possessed enchantments that protected the wearer from piercing and slashing weapons, improved their protection against various poisons, and made them unaffected by spiderwebs and the web spell. Additionally, the cloak gave non-drow who wore it the ability to summon darkness once per day.

Creation
The creator of a piwafwi had to be a drow and had to know the spells endure elements and invisibility.

Uses
The drow used these cloaks to stay out of sight in the Underdark. They were fashioned from spider silk and other unknown fibers and it was common for the wearer's house symbol to be included on the cloak.

Many piwafwi, especially those of drow nobles or wizards, were known to have other magical enchantments on them that made them strong enough to be resistant to magical and melee attacks.

As with drow possessions in general, it was very rare for other races to have piwafwis due to the xenophobic and protective nature of drow society.

Like many other drow items, direct sunlight would destroy a piwafwi, rendering it useless after two weeks of exposure. Even moonlight would fade it some. This was changed when Liriel Baenre inscribed a rune on the tree Yggdrasil's Child, allowing drow objects and magic to survive on the surface.

By the late 1490s DR, a piwafwi would lose its magic after merely one hour of continuous exposure to sunlight.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * Homeland • Daughter of the Drow
 * Video Games
 * Menzoberranzan • Neverwinter Nights series (Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark • Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford • Neverwinter Nights: Tyrants of the Moonsea) • Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance