The Crystal Tears (destroy v. discard)

L5R CCG Rules board, 28 April 2014 to 29 April 2014

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, 28 April 2014

The Crystal Tears Battle: Destroy a Terrain (if able). Put this Terrain into play. You may target and bow a Personality with 4 or more Force or a Fallen, Ninja, or Shadowlands card. After this Terrain is destroyed, straighten the target.

If a Personality bowed by The Crystal Tears survives (and remains bowed) to the cleanup step of battle resolution, does the rulebook "discard" of the terrain constitute destruction of that terrain for the purposes of the delayed straightening effect? I currently believe the answer is no, but given the slightly looser language of Ivory, I thought confirmation would be best.

A player, 29 April 2014

The terrain isn't destroyed, it's discarded (Pg 38, CR)