Deep Harbour has the text:
[bow]:When paying for a Holding, it enters play for 2 less Gold.
1. At what point in the recruit action do you bow Deep Harbour to ensure that the holding enters play at a reduced cost? Is it when you bow holdings to produce gold as a cost (and what happens if you don't need to produce any gold to buy the holding?), or is it when you begin to bring the holding into play? The text of other cards seems to suggest paying is producing gold, but the recruit action doesn't yet know what is being recruited (a similar issue to Vast Paddy Fields).
"Triggered traits include a trigger – a timing reference...Triggered traits are not optional – they must happen if the trigger occurs." "EXCEPTION: Traits that are triggered when paying a Gold cost, and whose effects produce Gold, are optional; they do not have to be triggered when any given Gold cost is paid."
2. Is the second trait on Deep Harbour a triggered trait (the trigger being 'When paying for a Holding')? If so as this is not a gold-producing trait is it correct that the player has no choice and must bow Deep Harbour at whatever the trigger point is? If this is correct then does the same apply to the following cards?
Akodo Dojo Colonial Dojo Colonial Temple Exotic Market Jade Works School of Wizardry Temple of Harmony
My assumption is that this is not the case, but I can't see through my own ignorance.