Ebony Armors and Weapons Retexture SE
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- 👍 0.3% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #110 of 565 Models and Textures mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
EBONY ARMORS AND WEAPONS RETEXTURE SE
"Ebony armor. By Ysmir, 'tis a wondrous sight"
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This mod retextures the Ebony armor set, shield and weapons, CC Ebony Plate armor, CC Ebony Crossbow and CC Ebony staff. Also contains optional retextures Amidianborn's content addon's Gilded and silvered ebony armors and weapons, Oblivion artifacts Pack's Armor of Amelion Brussef, Knight of Chorrol Armor, shield and sword and the hands of the atrocnach, LOTD's honorblade of chorrol, NordwarUA's Ebony armor and weapons and Elsopa's ebony quiver.
All items come in 3 color options: Black & silver, Black & gold and silver and white.
This mod also overwrites the Ebony Weapon meshes to give them the same cubemap and specular color as the armor. The vanilla meshes use a purple cubemap and blue specular while the armor use a grey cubemap and grey specular. Trying to reduce this issue by tweaking your textures is only a patch on this issue, which is why update 2. 0 finally makes the weapons use the same cubemap (Chitin_e_ebony.dds) as the armor.
The textures for the Amidianborn-style Ebony sets are based on Cabal120's aMidianBorn Book of Silence. I used their normal maps as a base to create those textures. All other textures use the vanilla normal maps as a base
I have tried to patch as many popular mods as I can. If I missed anything, please let me know in the comments or feel free to create the patch yourself and publish it on nexus (will provide instructions on how to create these mesh patches lower on this page. it is very simple to do).
Fomod lets you pick and choose what you want.
Chest textures are 4k, everything else is 2k
Half-res version available in Optional files chest, shield and weapons are 2k, everything else is 1k
Low-res version available in Optional files, chest shield and weapons are 1k, everything else is 512
FOMOD OPTIONS
BASE INSTALL
EBONY ARMOR
Ebony Armor - Vanilla style
Amidianborn Style
VANILLA STYLE COLORFUL PLATE
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Xavbio's Ebony Armors and Weapons Retexture SE overhauls the visual appearance of Ebony armor, weapons, and the Ebony Blade in Skyrim Special Edition. It also includes optional retextures for gilded gold and silvered ebony sets from Amidianborn, plus Amelion Brussef and Chorrol knight armors. A high-endorsement visual upgrade for fans of the Ebony aesthetic.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Huge community trust with 8,311 endorsements and 2.7 million downloads
- Covers the entire Ebony set plus unique variants, giving a cohesive look
- Optional add-ons let you extend the retexture to other armor sets
⚠️ Cons
- No explicit install instructions or compatibility notes in the description
- Requires the Amidianborn content addon for the optional gilded/silvered sets
- Texture replacer only — no mesh or gameplay changes, so don't expect new models
For Skyrim players who want a high-quality, lore-friendly visual upgrade to Ebony gear without changing gameplay. Perfect for modded playthroughs focused on aesthetics. Skip if you're looking for new armor models or gameplay tweaks.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Use a mod manager like Vortex or MO2 to install and manage the optional files easily.
- If you use the optional Amidianborn sets, make sure you have the Amidianborn content addon installed first.
- Load this mod after other texture mods that affect Ebony armor to ensure it takes priority.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- Xavbio
- Version
- 2.1.2
- Downloads
- 2,709,574
- Endorsements
- 8,311
- Category
- Models and Textures
- Created
- 1/28/2023
- Updated
- 4/25/2026
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