Dem0n5

I think all you would have to do is change the casting perk associated with the spell. I wouldn't know anything about custom races. The easiest fix there would probably be to just use the console to add the perk. player.addperk 00058217

You're completely right! I didn't even try to unlock or use the shouts assuming I couldn't. I was still in the mindset of "You can't unlock stuff until you do the graybeard quests" even now that I use Alternate Start and Immediate Dragons. So yea, no need for immediate shouts.

Are there any mods that enable shouting without activating it through the main quest?

Immediate Dragons is a great mod that lets you play the game without having to touch the main quest to unlock random dragons. It'd be nice if we could get a mod like that but for shouts. Please :)

I've been looking around the creation kit and seeing how various mods change things, and I was wondering how certain perks know the different between a Destruction perk and an Alteration perk or Fire and Shock and all the others. If I look at AlterationApprentice25, I can't see any difference between that perk and DestructionApprentice25 other than the name and requirements to take the perk. Example: I add "Mod spell magnitude" with a value of 1.15 to every apprentice perk. -- Would my example increase the magnitude of ALL spells by 15%, or is there some hidden function we can't see that knows the difference between alteration and destruction(and fire and frost spells)? Here you can see they require different values, one needs alteration and the alteration novice, the other destruction, but if you look at the fire and frost values the only difference is in the summary description. Another question I just realized, if I attach the magnitude function to an apprentice perk, would it only work for apprentice spells, like the half magicka cost? And if I make another perk half the magicka cost of spells(say, Eagle Eye in Archery), will it even work and if it does will it be all spells?