I have it on the best of authority (i.e, I just made it up) that it gets its name from the fact that the first such payment was made in the form of a Telmori who had been dipped in a vat of molten gold.
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> Esrolian Mothers and Ernalda priestesses I picture as pigpen (cf Charlie
> Brown). Always dirty and dropping dirt everywhere they go - those with a
> high earth rune that is. > Now you are just being silly. If anything, the Doraddi and their related
> cultures have been presented as being better than most of the Genertelan
> cultures. They are far less prone to violence, for example.
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What about Toph from Avatar:the Last Airbender? "You call it dirt. I call it a healthy coating of Earth!"
Mark Mohrfield
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