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, 25 July 2007
While it was helpful, the answer to my question (here) only implied that all Followers, created, brought into play from discard pile, etc, are considered to have been played from the hand according to the text on Requisitioned Troops.
This is merely confirmation requested. "Return" something to somewhere implies that it had to be in that place it is returning to at one point. Should I read this as "place the target in the location" and ignore the meaning of "Return" when applying the effect to cards that were not in the location they are being "returned" to? I have no complaints if so, since I plan to use this card
Chris Fuchs (rules official), 26 July 2007
While it was helpful, the answer to my question (here) only implied that all Followers, created, brought into play from discard pile, etc, are considered to have been played from the hand according to the text on Requisitioned Troops.
This is merely confirmation requested. "Return" something to somewhere implies that it had to be in that place it is returning to at one point. Should I read this as "place the target in the location" and ignore the meaning of "Return" when applying the effect to cards that were not in the location they are being "returned" to? I have no complaints if so, since I plan to use this card
The usage of the word return does not carry any implications as to where the card initially entered play from in this case.