I'm on my 3rd play through at the moment with a Dunmer battlemage an he's at level 32 having completed the main quest and the dark brotherhood questline. I'm struggling to find ebony armour and have in fact only come across 2 pairs of boots. The seems to be quite a lot of ebony weapons available but no armour. I don't use wiki or anything similar as I don't want a walk through and I'm wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction for my search.

Have you met Umbra yet?