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.
(I tried the Search function for "portals open", and didn't get any match; looks like the search function is currently down)
This is mostly for a confirmation, but...
Does The Portals Open do anything useful for a player whose Stronghold does not have a faction trait? (ie, the Shadowlands under the current rules, and presumably the Maw's Grave under Samurai rules)
(I tried the Search function for "portals open", and didn't get any match; looks like the search function is currently down)
This is mostly for a confirmation, but...
Does The Portals Open do anything useful for a player whose Stronghold does not have a faction trait? (ie, the Shadowlands under the current rules, and presumably the Maw's Grave under Samurai rules)
No. Shadowlands is not a faction/clan trait.