Race Abilities Enhanced

Rae's goal is to make the decision of race much more important, and relevant, through the entire game. In addition to considering how your character will look, you will need to consider what type of character build you want to develop.

• Most base aspects of each race are tweaked: HMS, Regeneration Rates, Height, Unarmed Damage, etc. (more unique).
• Skills begin at 5 instead of 15, and like vanilla each race gains a boost to specific skills. However, these skills are learned faster too (more relevant).
• Choose how your abilities work from up to 4 options (and strengths): Passive, Trigger, Unlock, Power (more useful).
• As before, each race has a base bonus, but also a base flaw (more realistic).
• Unlike the original Rae, the majority of this version can work with other race overhauls (more compatible).
  

Base Tweaks

• Skills start at 5 (instead of 15).
• Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary skills receive a +15/+10/+5 and are learned 15%/10%/5% faster.
• Health, Magicka, and Stamina (as well as their regeneration rates) are all adjusted based on the races natural abilities.
• Starting Carry Weight has been changed to be a function of starting Health and Stamina.
• Elf names are changed (High Elf shows as Altmer, Wood Elf shows as Bosmer, and Dark Elf as Dunmer) and descriptions updated to reflect Rae's approach.
• Starting spells removed, except Altmer, Breton, Dunmer, and Imperial.
• No abilities are added initially, minimizing Race Record changes to the above bullets only.
• Via the MCM, each race has 4 abilities with up to 3 subtypes each (but a total of 9 options per race), of which you can make 4 selections.
• Due to the way the abilities are implemented, these are now independent of other race changes and therefore will work with other overhauls.
  

Starting Spells: Altmer and Dunmer receive two starting spells (Calm and Fury, and Flames and Sparks respectively). Bretons, given their prowess in Conjuration, receive the Conjure Familiar spell to start, and Imperials receive Healing as the most gifted in Restoration.

Abilities: Aside from the base ability which generally provides a resistance and a weakness, each race has access to up to four additional abilities. Most of these have multiple subtype on how they are implemented. You can choose one of each ability, or load up on a just a couple (more than one subtype can be selected for a single ability, and given the right circumstances they will stack).

• Passive: Base strength. Ability is always active.
• Trigger: 2x as powerful as Passive. Ability activates under specific circumstances (Magicka > 75%, Health < 25%, etc.)
• Unlock: 3x as powerful as Passive. Ability that becomes active after specific criteria is met, and continues to grow based on that criteria.
• Power: 4x as powerful as Passive. Once-a-day power, activated via the Power menu and using the Voice key.
  

NPCs
While NPCs will not utilize once-a-day or unlock powers, they have a chance to receive the benefits of passive and trigger abilities. There are also some additional hidden perks added to NPCs to simulate some of the abilities that would not otherwise be used in order to ensure equal access to all abilities. In order for this to be accomplished, SPID is utilized (see requirements).

Races
For reference, Vanilla starts H/M/S each at 100, with a 0.70, 3.00, and 5.00 regeneration rate respectively.

Altmer

Argonian

Bosmer

Breton

Dunmer

Imperial

Khajiit

Nord

Orc

Redguard

Parts of Rae are incompatible with mods that alter player race records (such as primary, secondary, tertiary skills, HMS, regeneration, height, carry weight, etc.) without a patch. This includes other race overhauls. However, the abilities will be compatible with any other mod as these are added following character creation and saving them in the MCM.

Rae also incorporates a simple "weapon speed fix" that starts the character's speed at 1 (instead of vanilla 0). Depending on implementation, this may cause issues with other weapon speed fix mods. This has been tested (and I currently use it with) Weapon Speed Fix by Myst without issue.

SkyRem Character Series
Genders: Genders Are Boringly Indistinct
Races: Race Abilities Enhanced
Attributes: Attribute Value Application
Classes: Class Overhaul Re-Imagined
Epochs: Epochs Life Skill Adjustment

SkyRem Immersion Series
Economy: Evolving Value Economy
Activations: More Immersive Activations
Encounter Zones: Improved NPC Encounter Zones
Loot: Loot Overhaul - Rarity & Abundance
Indigence: Indigent Residents In Skyrim

SkyRem Gameplay Series
Perk Trees: Masterly - Intuitive Skill Tree Integration
Standing Stones: Constellations - A Standing Stones Improvement
Magic and Enchantments: <<Current Project>>

SkyRem: Skyrim Roleplay Enhancement Mod Guide
SkyRem Guide: A guide based on the SkyRem concept