Morrowind:Ebony Mail (artifact)

Artifact: Ebony Mail (ebon_plate_cuirass_unique) (lore page)
Type	Cuirass
Statistics
Rating	100 (333 Max)
Rating	100 (333 Max)	Health	3,000
Weight	20 (Medium)	Value	120,000
Enchantment
Constant Effect  Resist Fire 75 pts on Self  Shield 50 pts on Self  Resist Magicka 20 pts on Self

Ebony Mail

The Ebony Mail is a breastplate created before recorded history by the Dark Elven goddess Boethiah. It is she who determines who should possess the Ebony Mail and for how long a time. If judged worthy, its power grants the wearer added resistance of fire, magicka, and grants a magical shield. It is Boethiah alone who determines when a person is ineligible to bear the Ebony Mail any longer, and the goddess can be very capricious. —Yagrum Bagarn, Tamrielic Lore

The armor is obtained via a high ranking quest for the Tribunal Temple. See the Ebony Mail quest for more information.

Notes

• With the Tribunal expansion, this artifact can be sold to Torasa Aram in the Museum of Artifacts for 30,000 gold.
• Despite being medium armor rather than heavy, this artifact ties the Dragonbone cuirass and Lord's Mail as the cuirass with the highest armor rating. However because its constant effect Shield fortifies the armor rating by 50 points, it has the highest effective armor rating out of the three cuirasses.
• This artifact also appears in Arena, Daggerfall, with similar enchantments. In Skyrim, it appears with different effects.