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, 6 August 2007
When a battle resolution kills your army and you use Death After Life, where will the personality go? The battle has been resolved and the card states that it should be placed in that battle. The previous thread mentioned this and stated that such an act was legal. What happens to the personality you summon back and where does he go if:
A. You were defending and your province was destroyed
B. You were defending and your province was not destroyed
C. You were attacking and you lost during resolution
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 6 August 2007
When a battle resolution kills your army and you use Death After Life, where will the personality go?
"...in your current army" (card text). Which promptly goes home.