User blog comment:TESClaymore/Skyrim Answers from Bethesda/@comment-3097746-20110831120104/@comment-4033448-20110903124307

LukaSlayR, if you are reffering to Ebony being blackened steel your very wrong, and the Anon is quite right. Ebony is actually a volcanic glass like Obsidian, albeit very rare and precious, found mainly in Vvardenfell. And your statement that it ain't shiny is false, in Morrowind Ebony gear was very shiny.