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, 12 January 2009
Let´s say that I use Let them fight their dead and bring Hida Sozen XP2 to my side of the battlefield.
Will Sozen Xp2 be destroyed at the end of the battle or does his trait protect him from being destroyed (because he will be destroyed by the effects of an opponents card), and so keeping Sozen Xp2 on my side of the game permanently.
Let Them Fight Their Dead
Maho Kiho Battle: Target one of your unbowed opposed Shugenja: Target a dead Personality the enemy leader owns. Lose 5 Honor. Bring him into play, in your army, waiving costs and ignoring restrictions. After the battle ends, destroy him.
Hida Sozen Xp2
Other players' actions cannot destroy Sozen. Heroic Battle: If there are any units in the enemy army: Move Sozen to the current battlefield.
Thanks in advance
Alex Jones (rules official), 13 January 2009
Let´s say that I use Let them fight their dead and bring Hida Sozen XP2 to my side of the battlefield.
Will Sozen Xp2 be destroyed at the end of the battle or does his trait protect him from being destroyed (because he will be destroyed by the effects of an opponents card), and so keeping Sozen Xp2 on my side of the game permanently.
Let Them Fight Their Dead
Maho Kiho Battle: Target one of your unbowed opposed Shugenja: Target a dead Personality the enemy leader owns. Lose 5 Honor. Bring him into play, in your army, waiving costs and ignoring restrictions. After the battle ends, destroy him.
Hida Sozen Xp2
Other players' actions cannot destroy Sozen. Heroic Battle: If there are any units in the enemy army: Move Sozen to the current battlefield.
Thanks in advance
Special wording rules, possessive case: When referring to the relationship between a player and a card or cards, possessive terms refer to a card in play controlled by the player, or a card out of play owned by the player. You control Hida Sozen and it's your action that would destroy him after the battle, so he gets no protection.
Sozen dies.