User blog comment:JAlbor/Beta Announcement and New Trailer for Destiny/@comment-17229870-20131010103503/@comment-4814368-20131010162547

Capes play into the Western theme of the game, so I like it a lot. I get that functionally they may be superflous if you sleep in your armor or something. But, presuming adventurers take off their suits when they sleep at night, out on the plains or something, then a cloak makes sense.