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.
Peaceful Interlude
Limited: After each battle resolution in which you destroyed one or more Provinces or units as the winner, you may target a Personality; if you do, dishonor him, and his controller loses 2 Honor.
Destroyed is past tense. Does this mean the effect happens from the point you play this, as in any time yuo destroy a province from now, does it apply retroactively, so for any that you have already destroyed, or does it apply both retroactively and for any future provinces?
Thanks.
Peaceful Interlude
Limited: After each battle resolution in which you destroyed one or more Provinces or units as the winner, you may target a Personality; if you do, dishonor him, and his controller loses 2 Honor.
Destroyed is past tense. Does this mean the effect happens from the point you play this, as in any time yuo destroy a province from now, does it apply retroactively, so for any that you have already destroyed, or does it apply both retroactively and for any future provinces?
Thanks.
Peaceful Interlude's action creates an Ongoing Indefinite Conditional Effect, which has a duration of "until the end of the turn" by default. Such an effect occurs immediately after its trigger occurs throughout its duration. It doesn't look back and trigger retroactively, and it doesn't continue past the turn its played, due to not having a stated duration (such as, "Until the end of the game, after each battle...").
What you want to look at to tell what triggers the effect is not just "destroyED", but rather the entire point in time, "After each battle resolution in which you destroyed one or more Provinces or units as the winner".