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.
Forest Cleansing reads: Battle/Open: Target a Dishonored Personality and a Province belonging to his controller. Bow the Personality. Reduce the Province's Strength to 0.
If used in battle does the Dishonored Personality have to be at the battle or is location met by targeting the current Province?
If used in battle and the Dishonored Personality is at the battlefield and attacking, may I play Forest Cleansing to bow their guy and drop one of their provinces to 0 province strength?
Thanks!
The Rule of Location: This rule has two parts:
1. Any cards in units must be at the current battlefield to be legally targeted by a Battle action.
2. If a Battle action is on a card in a unit (a Personality or attachment in play), the unit must be at the current battlefield.
The personality must be at the current battlefield. The province may be any province belonging to that personality's controller.