How about shields AND cloaks?
Though I'd like to see these as appliques/patches, not discrete new items. People earn the patch in whatever manner is chosen, then an NPC can apply them to a supplied cloak or shield and changes the graphic only, not the name or stats. Thus, someone could have their city patch applied to a hephaestus, a ranger's cloak of augmentation, etc. Just a visual thing. (cloaks would require an art change that probably only the EC could adequately accommodate, since the CC's avatar art assets were lost)