Anima credit – The Binding Chaos Lexicon

A balance owed in a relationship or interaction where the subject has given more than they have received.

Expanded explanation

Marsh treats interactions as exchanges of anima that can be measured against each other, and a credit is what stands when someone has put more energy into a relationship than they have taken out. It is one half of a pair with anima debit, its opposite. Naming the balance matters because it does not vanish: a credit can be held, remembered and drawn on, by a person, a group or an object. In her discussion of monuments to atrocity, Marsh describes how a memorial can act as a bank holding anima credit as grievance, a surplus of unbalanced giving carried forward across generations. The credit is the ledger of who has given more than they received, and it can shape a relationship long after the interaction that created it.

Examples

The over-giver: Someone who consistently pours more energy into a relationship than they receive holds a growing anima credit.
Grievance as stored credit: Marsh describes monuments to past atrocity, such as a preserved skull tower, as banks holding anima credit as grievance across generations.

How others use it

Everyday language talks of emotional labour and of relationships being unbalanced, and accounting uses credit and debit for exactly this kind of two-sided balance. Marsh applies the ledger to anima itself, so unbalanced giving and receiving of life energy leaves a real carried-forward balance rather than a merely felt one.