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, 22 February 2015
Salutations. So, I was messing around on the oracle earlier, and I noticed that while Zenathaar and Chaldera are listed as Unaligned, Shabura is listed as Naga for clan. This, combined with the fact that Shabura and Chaldera have the Naga mon and border, lead to a slight confusion for me (and potentially others). 1)Which, if any, of these three are Unaligned, and which, if any, are Naga clan? 2)According to the comprehensive rules, it seems Naga is not a clan alligiance, but does that mean that it is not a clan at all, or just not a clan with a SH?
As far as I can tell, all three personalities are Unaligned, but I wished for more official clarification.
Alex Jones (rules official), 23 February 2015
Salutations. So, I was messing around on the oracle earlier, and I noticed that while Zenathaar and Chaldera are listed as Unaligned, Shabura is listed as Naga for clan. This, combined with the fact that Shabura and Chaldera have the Naga mon and border, lead to a slight confusion for me (and potentially others). 1)Which, if any, of these three are Unaligned, and which, if any, are Naga clan? 2)According to the comprehensive rules, it seems Naga is not a clan alligiance, but does that mean that it is not a clan at all, or just not a clan with a SH?
As far as I can tell, all three personalities are Unaligned, but I wished for more official clarification.
Naga is not currently a clan alignment. If a Personality's clan alignment is listed in the Oracle as "Naga", this is only relevant in Legacy or Big Deck games.
Shabura is effectively unaligned in Ivory and Twenty Festivals, as they have been in any non-Open/Legacy/etc format since Gold Edition.
Zenathaar and Chaldera have the Naga alignment in formats where Naga is a valid clan alignment.