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Hello! I'm looking for a way to easily or simply change they way my character looks to that of another race, so that I can keep the racial abilities of the original. Specifically, I want to make a High Elf, but then make them look like a person. I've tried the showracemenu command but whenever I change my appearance and save (with the command window still open) and load the save, I have the race abilities and stats of the race I switched to- not the Altmer. So, I've been scouring the forum and Google in general to find an easy way to do this and I'm not sure there is one, although it seems like it should be pretty simple. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!