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Like, I know that the high elves use glass and moonstone for example. But what about dunmer? Do they use ebony ore? I know Nerevar used a dwemmer weapon (trueflame?).

So a dunmer wearing glass armor would make sense?

Very much so. The styles featured in Oblivion and Skyrim are not the Dunmeri style, though. This is what Dunmeri glass http://en.uesp.net/wiki/File:MW-item-Glass_Armor.jpg and http://en.uesp.net/wiki/File:MW-item-Glass_Weapons.jpg look like. This is still something that only a select few can afford, though. Most Morrowind Dunmer wear chitin, bonemold, or netch leather. Chitin weapons of all types and bonemold bows are pretty common. Iron and steel weapons were also pretty common in TES3.

If he can afford it and prefers light armour. It's certainly not one of the most common materials used by Dunmer. Quite a few Buoyant Armigers wear it, although most make do with chitin.

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I might add that while nobody in the games seems to comment on it, Redoran warriors tend to use more Dwemer arms. At least the ones between the majority, who use bonemold and steel, and the wealthiest nobles, who use ebony (including the odd daedric weapon).

I'd dare to say daedric isn't too uncommon in Morrowind, or at least on Vvanderfell, considering the vats amount of daedric worshiping and related ruins. Unlike in Skyrim, daedra were almost a part of the wildlife in TES 3.

Daedric gear was extremely rare in TES3, though. I think the only examples in the game were as set loot in set locations rather than being part of the leveled lists like in every other game. They certainly don't have any cultural stigmas against using Daedric gear, though.

Where does daedric armor lie then? Would the higher-classed individuals use it over say, ebony for one example?

Other than Divayth Fyr's suit, the only pieces of Daedric seen in Morrowind that aren't at the bottom of some forgotten ruin are on display by extremely wealthy individuals, none of whom seem to have more than a single piece. The only two exceptions are a lone Buoyant Armiger who wears a Daedric helm and a body guard to an extremely wealthy and influential individual who has a Daedric shield. Presumably, adventurers who do manage to find Daedric gear will use it, but most of it seems to be held as collector's items.

Remember, before Oblivion made it fairly common in leveled lists and Skyrim made it craftable, Daedric armor and weapons were the rarest in the world, topped only by one-offs, like the various artifacts. Most adventurers would go their entire lives without ever seeing a sample. If the Oblivion Crisis actually made Daedric gear more common, then I imagine that anyone who could benefit from it and got a hold of it would use it, especially the Dunmer since their Daedra worship would make taboos about using Daedric equipment unlikely.

In short, adventurers probably can't afford Daedric and the wealthy probably won't part with any, but adventurers who do find Daedric will absolutely use it.

Armor, yes, but most characters would swim in daedric weaponry and shields past level 20. There are a bit more daedric weapons distributed between NPCs, and all weapons and both shields are in leveled lists. This, of course, in no way disproves the actual point of the posts above, that in a non-gameplay manner it is quite a collector's item. Bottom point is, in case you'd go for an experienced adventurer or a rich person, daedric would absolutely fit a dunmer.

In all fairness, glass did always look like just glass plate covers over armor pieces whose main bodies were made of some metal such as steel.

And moreover, you could argue that the dunmer is an experienced conjurer and spends their days working the atronoch forge. This would make more sense to me then a dunmer finding or crafting it to be honest. Especially since c is supposed to do some interesting things in Elder Scrolls.

A hard core dunmer who possibly admires everything daedric would definitely grab the opportunity to work such an artifact, I like the idea.

Iron, Steel, Silver, Ebony. IIRC Morrowind has some Chitin and Bonemold weapons too.

Destruction would definitely be an option with emphasis on daedric armor created through conjuration.

I agree and also most elves arnt famed for the massive muscles and tall stature, and considering most "traitional" dunmer customs descend from ashlander tribes, who care more about speed and agility for hunting and scouting purposes it makes sense the dunmer would prefer netch leather and chitin and other light armour and weapons that can be fashioned on the go.