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, 2 October 2014
Hi
I did not find the answer to this, sorry if its a re-post anyway. The card in question is Chaos of Battle:
Battle: Give one or two target opposed Personalities a Force bonus equal to the number of different Clan alignments on Personalities at the current battlefield.
The 8 personalities from coils of madness have two clan alignments. Please confirm that, if I have for example: Usagi Seki (Dragon Clan and Hare Clan) and Tochiko (Mantis Clan and Boar clan) facing Komori Miyano (Unicorn Clan and Bat Clan) on the other side, can I boost their Force by 6 each?
Jon Palmer (rules official), 2 October 2014
Hi
I did not find the answer to this, sorry if its a re-post anyway. The card in question is Chaos of Battle:
Battle: Give one or two target opposed Personalities a Force bonus equal to the number of different Clan alignments on Personalities at the current battlefield.
The 8 personalities from coils of madness have two clan alignments. Please confirm that, if I have for example: Usagi Seki (Dragon Clan and Hare Clan) and Tochiko (Mantis Clan and Boar clan) facing Komori Miyano (Unicorn Clan and Bat Clan) on the other side, can I boost their Force by 6 each?
Generally, no.
Effects that look for Clan alignments such as this one look for one of the nine legal Clan alignments - Crab, Crane, Dragon, Lion, Mantis, Phoenix, Scorpion, Spider, Unicorn. In Legacy or Big Deck formats, if one of the players is using Shiro Usagi, then Usagi Seki would have two Clan alignments.