diff --git a/Wabbajack.Common/DynamicIniData.cs b/Wabbajack.Common/DynamicIniData.cs
index 7757f40f..594058b5 100644
--- a/Wabbajack.Common/DynamicIniData.cs
+++ b/Wabbajack.Common/DynamicIniData.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
-using System.Dynamic;
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Dynamic;
+using System.Numerics;
+using System.Text;
 using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 using IniParser;
+using IniParser.Exceptions;
 using IniParser.Model;
 
 namespace Wabbajack.Common
@@ -44,10 +49,58 @@ namespace Wabbajack.Common
         public override bool TryGetMember(GetMemberBinder binder, out object result)
         {
             result = _coll[binder.Name];
-            if (result is string) result = Regex.Unescape(((string) result).Trim('"'));
+            if (result is string) result = Interpret((string)result);
             return true;
         }
 
+        private static string Interpret(string s)
+        {
+            if (s.StartsWith("@ByteArray(") && s.EndsWith(")"))
+            {
+                return UnescapeUTF8(s.Substring("@ByteArray(".Length, s.Length - "@ByteArray(".Length - ")".Length));
+            }
+
+            return UnescapeString(s);
+        }
+
+        private static string UnescapeString(string s)
+        {
+            return Regex.Unescape(s.Trim('"'));
+        }
+
+        private static string UnescapeUTF8(string s)
+        {
+            List<byte> acc = new List<byte>();
+            for (var i = 0; i < s.Length; i++)
+            {
+                var c = s[i];
+                switch (c)
+                {
+                    case '\\':
+                        i++;
+                        var nc = s[i];
+                        switch (nc)
+                        {
+                            case '\\':
+                                acc.Add((byte)'\\');
+                                break;
+                            case 'x':
+                                var chrs = s[i + 1] + s[i + 2].ToString();
+                                i += 2;
+                                acc.Add(Convert.ToByte(chrs, 16));
+                                break;
+                            default:
+                                throw new ParsingException($"Not a valid escape characer {nc}");
+                        }
+                        break;
+                    default:
+                        acc.Add((byte)c);
+                        break;
+                }
+            }
+            return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(acc.ToArray());
+        }
+
         public override bool TryGetIndex(GetIndexBinder binder, object[] indexes, out object result)
         {
             if (indexes.Length > 1)
@@ -61,4 +114,4 @@ namespace Wabbajack.Common
             return true;
         }
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/Wabbajack.Test/IniTests.cs b/Wabbajack.Test/IniTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6ad26a1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Wabbajack.Test/IniTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
+using Wabbajack.Common;
+
+namespace Wabbajack.Test
+{
+    [TestClass]
+    public class IniTests
+    {
+        
+        [TestMethod]
+        public void TestByteArrayParsing()
+        {
+            Assert.AreEqual("bar", @"[General]
+                                     foo = bar".LoadIniString().General.foo);
+
+            Assert.AreEqual("baz\\bar", @"[General]
+                                     foo = baz\\bar".LoadIniString().General.foo);
+            
+            Assert.AreEqual("bar", @"[General]
+                                     foo = @ByteArray(bar)".LoadIniString().General.foo);
+
+            Assert.AreEqual("foo\\h̴̹͚̎é̶̘͙̐l̶͕̔͑p̴̯̋͂m̶̞̮͘͠e̸͉͙͆̄\\baz", @"[General]
+                                     foo = @ByteArray(foo\\\x68\xcc\xb4\xcc\x8e\xcc\xb9\xcd\x9a\x65\xcc\xb6\xcd\x81\xcc\x90\xcc\x98\xcd\x99\x6c\xcc\xb6\xcc\x94\xcd\x91\xcd\x95\x70\xcc\xb4\xcc\x8b\xcd\x82\xcc\xaf\x6d\xcc\xb6\xcd\x98\xcd\xa0\xcc\x9e\xcc\xae\x65\xcc\xb8\xcd\x86\xcc\x84\xcd\x89\xcd\x99\\baz)".LoadIniString().General.foo);
+        }
+        
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Wabbajack.Test/Wabbajack.Test.csproj b/Wabbajack.Test/Wabbajack.Test.csproj
index 1b15cf8d..581ff503 100644
--- a/Wabbajack.Test/Wabbajack.Test.csproj
+++ b/Wabbajack.Test/Wabbajack.Test.csproj
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@
     <Compile Include="EndToEndTests.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Extensions.cs" />
     <Compile Include="FilePickerTests.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="IniTests.cs" />
     <Compile Include="MiscTests.cs" />
     <Compile Include="MO2Tests.cs" />
     <Compile Include="ModlistMetadataTests.cs" />