Volus

Volus



The volus are short and squat, almost round aliens. They typically wear heavy clothing and breathing masks when not on their homeworld. They are members of the Citadel, but they are not part of the council. The volus are a turian "client race" (minority race subject to their government, but with full citizenship rights). The turians have little interest in economics or financial matters, and the volus have come to fill the role of merchants and bankers in their society.

Volus naming convention: Although volus have two names, they don't have "family names." According to volus sensibilities, you cannot own a person, and thus no "family names" should never lay claim to one of their offspring. Volus names tend to be very simple, usually three to four syllables with hard consonants driving each syllable. Example: Dor Korkan; Barla Von, Col Alal.

Volus speech pattern: Volus tend to refer to members of other races by their source world rather than their species name.

Example: "I was not aware any Earth-clan had been accepted into the spectre order."