I think I just became a conspiracy theorist on accident. While reading another topic in GD, I thought of this…
Anima is a scam. The covenants are only rewarding players anima that other adventurers have deposited. Then that reward is deposited and is a reward for the next person. It’s a fractional reserve system, and each world quest that gives anima acts like a local bank, the covenant zones act as corporation banks like Chase or Bank of America, with Oribos being the Federal Reserve. We’re basically bank employees acting as armored car transport…