Elcor speech is ponderous and monotone. Among themselves, scent, slight movements, and subvocalized infrasound convey shades of meaning that make a human smile seem as subtle as a fireworks display. Since their subtlety can lead to misunderstandings with other species, the elcor often go out of their way to clarify when they are being sarcastic, amused, or angry.
The shop is run by an elcor, one of a race of aliens that speak in such a monotone they are forced to declare their inflections before each sentence.
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Valente's space-operatic locked-room mystery is populated by an all-alien contingent of the quarian ark ship Keelah Si'Yah that is delayed on its faster-than-light 600-year trip from the Milky Way to the Andromeda galaxy when its cryogenic bays are sabotaged by a manufactured pathogen dubbed the Fortinbras variant by a Hamlet-obsessed elcor.
