A topic from AEG's L5R CCG Rules forum, copied for Oracle of the Void from a copy of the forum saved in October 2015, so pages it didn't save are missing. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.
A player, 8 March 2013
Hi Rules Team,
If I have a personality with "Stalwart" and my opponent has Heart of Darkness in play, will that terrain bow my personality? I don't think it will, since stalwart blocks the first bowing from opponent's cards and the terrain would be an opponent's card. This is assuming that Heart of Darkness' effect is the first attempt at bowing my guy this turn.
Thanks!
Relevant Card Text:
(Stalwart cards negate their first bowing each turn by other players' cards.)
Before this battle's resolution: Choose and bow zero to two cards at the current battlefield with 4 or greater Force. Battle: If no Terrain is at the current battlefield: Put this card into play there.
Alex Jones (rules official), 8 March 2013
Hi Rules Team,
If I have a personality with "Stalwart" and my opponent has Heart of Darkness in play, will that terrain bow my personality? I don't think it will, since stalwart blocks the first bowing from opponent's cards and the terrain would be an opponent's card. This is assuming that Heart of Darkness' effect is the first attempt at bowing my guy this turn.
Thanks!
Relevant Card Text:
Stalwart can indeed negate the bowing from Heart of Darkness.