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, 26 February 2008
Two questions:
Relevant Text: Political Open: From now until the turn ends, a target player cannot gain more than 5 points of Honor in total from his own card effects, and cannot lose more than 5 points of Honor in total from other players' card effects.
If another player controls a dishonored personality with 2 denounced on stage even if they have lost the 5 honor max per turn if their personality dies from hired killer then would that personality lose honor from its PH and would it be increased by denounced on stage or Yogo Honami?
Doruk Özaydın (rules official), 28 February 2008
If another player controls a dishonored personality with 2 Denounced on Stage in effect even if they have lost the 5 honor max per turn if their personality dies from hired killer then would that player lose honor from its PH
Yes, the player would lose honor equal to the personal honor of the destroyed, dishonored personality plus 2, since the honor loss from a destroyed dishonored personality is a rulebook effect and not from a player.
and would it be increased by Denounced on Stage or Yogo Honami?
Yes, it can be increased by Denounced on Stage or Yogo Honami as these effects simply increase the loss and do not create a new loss.