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I don't have time to confirm this yet, but it looks like stamina usage is calculated depending on race. If you go to whatever race you're using (NordRace, etc) and go to the "Attack Data" tab, you can see bashPowerStart and bashStart events where it gives you the multipliers for damage, stagger, stamina... at least I think that's what that means.

If anyone is still modding this game and looking for this answer, I found where some of this stuff is. I haven't tested it yet though, so I can't guarantee it'll work or it's not going to break something. It's also not an easy solution. Unfortunately every race-specific comment in the game is unique and you can't just add your race to a BretonList or something like that. You have to find every race-specific dialogue you want to change and modify it individually. Every dialogue option is in a Quest somewhere (even the generic "arrow to the knee" type comments). I'll give two examples. In the intro scene, Hadvar makes three race specific comments. Two after you choose your race, and the third after (Spoiler Alert) the dragon shows up. The first two are in MQ101. Open MQ101 in the CK, go to the Scenes tab, choose the MQ101Scene4 EditorID, and scroll to the right about a third of the way. You'll find Action 133 and Action 171. Here you can see the text for each race. Double click on the one you want and it'll bring up a Topic Info window. There you can see the Conditions: GetPCIsRace = whatever. You can add your race to the list, and make sure to change the existing one to an OR instead of AND. If you want to create a completely new race comment then you can click on the Action itself and probably add it there, but obviously that won't work unless you know someone who can do a good Hadvar impression. Do the same thing with Action 171. Hadvar's third race comment is actually in a different quest, MQ101DragonAttack. Go to Scenes -> MQ101DragonAttackScene1 and do the same steps as before. The other place you can find race comments are in generic dialogue. An NPC like a guard might make a comment about your race every once in a while. I'm not sure where all of these are at, but I found a couple so far. Guards are in DialogueGuardsGeneral, and one other place is DialogueGeneric. For these situations, they're still technically quests, but it's in the Misc tab this time. For DialogueGuardsGeneral, go to Misc and then select the (Hello) Topic. There's a big long list there and it won't let you sort, but if you start typing what you want it'll go to it. For example there is "How can I help a brother Nord" and "Stay out of trouble, <race>". You can update these the same way as before, by double clicking and changing the Conditions. For DialogueGeneric, comments are in Misc -> DialogueGenericHello (Hello). These are just when they say the race name and nothing else. I'm sure there are other places that this would need to be updated and it's not very easy to find the right quests, but hopefully this will help point someone in the right direction.