Deleting/remaking a character question

[Teufelgott-shadowsong (Teufelgott)]

@Beastlyman-azjolnerub

I want to make my warrior a dark iron dwarf, but I wanted to level him up from level 1 to get the heritage armor and not have to pay for a race change.

I’m confused. Why would you have to delete the existing warrior to create the Dark Iron warrior? You can have both.