The majority of Skyrim players are likely familiar with the Daedric Lord set via it being included in the widely used Immersive Armors compilation mod. However, it is in fact originally from an Oblivion mod created by and uploaded by "McMuffin" in 2008, that was ported to Skyrim LE by "Natterforme" in 2013.

Unfortunately, at some point during that LE port process a number of irreparable negative changes were made to the textures for unclear reasons that may or may not have been completely intentional, including excessive darkening of all diffuse maps such that a great deal of visible detail was lost.

All of that said, what you'll find here is what I feel is an absolute best effort attempt at carefully cleaning and upscaling the original Oblivion Daedric Lord assets for use as a loose files texture replacer with Immersive Armors SE. McMuffin's exact original color scheme has been completely preserved, and all possible steps were taken to minimize things like normal map aliasing.

Install this mod using your mod manager of choice. "Mod list" load order should not be relevant, as Immersive Armors bundles all assets in a BSA that will be overridden by this mod regardless of where it is placed positionally.