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, 26 October 2013
Power of Strength: Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Personality with 7 or higher base Force and target two enemy Personalities, each with unit Gold Cost lower than your performer's Gold Cost: Bow one of them. Ranged Attack with strength equal to the first target's Force, which may only target the other Personality (if legal).
Goju Sawaki: Reaction: After another player's Battle action targets Sawaki, destroy him: Create two 1F/1C/0PH Spider Clan • Shadowlands • Ninja Personalities at the current battlefield.
I target Sawaki and a 7G unit with an 11G unit performing Power of Strength. Sawaki splits at the targeting, but before I choose which target bows or gets hit by the ranged attack. What happens?
A) Sawaki split personalities are not targets of the action and I only get a bowed personality. B) Sawaki split personalities are considered Sawaki for the purposes of the target (the personalities have 0G are still valid per the card's targeting restrictions). C) I don't know because L5R is hard.
Alex Jones (rules official), 27 October 2013
Power of Strength: Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Personality with 7 or higher base Force and target two enemy Personalities, each with unit Gold Cost lower than your performer's Gold Cost: Bow one of them. Ranged Attack with strength equal to the first target's Force, which may only target the other Personality (if legal).
Goju Sawaki: Reaction: After another player's Battle action targets Sawaki, destroy him: Create two 1F/1C/0PH Spider Clan • Shadowlands • Ninja Personalities at the current battlefield.
I target Sawaki and a 7G unit with an 11G unit performing Power of Strength. Sawaki splits at the targeting, but before I choose which target bows or gets hit by the ranged attack. What happens?
A) Sawaki split personalities are not targets of the action and I only get a bowed personality. B) Sawaki split personalities are considered Sawaki for the purposes of the target (the personalities have 0G are still valid per the card's targeting restrictions). C) I don't know because L5R is hard.
A - you targeted Sawaki, not the Personalities created by his ability.