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A player, 23 August 2010
Since its is a promo but is currently available for purchase with Cards for Koku, I figured it might be legal to ask a question about it. If I'm incorrect, I apologize.
Heartlands Region Farm- Singular Limited: Pay 3 gold: Create a 1Force 1Chi 1Personal Honor Personality with your Clan alignment
If one is playing Ronin out of Palace of the Breaking Dawn, what does Heartlands create?
a) a 1F/1C/1PH Ronin personality b) a 1F/1C/1PH Unaligned personality
(operating on the assumption that Ronin and Unaligned are two different thing, since Unaligned in not a keyword where I think Ronin is).
[ducking head to avoid potential Rules Junta illegal post wrath]Thank you.[/ducking head to avoid potential Rules Junta illegal post wrath]
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 23 August 2010
If one is playing Ronin out of Palace of the Breaking Dawn, what does Heartlands create?
A Personality with no alignment related keywords at all. Not "Ronin." Not "Unaligned." Not anything.
http://rules.l5r.com/CE_The_Player#Clan_alignment: "A player using an unaligned Stronghold (one with no Clan alignment) has no Clan alignment. An unaligned player does not have the same Clan alignment as unaligned Personalities. "
A player, 30 August 2010
Regarding this recent answer from Zen, http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=85957. I believe Zen is saying that the created personalities have no trait for Clan Alignment and also no trait for Unaligned (this printed trait does not exist in CE).
However Unaligned as defined in the CE Glossary, http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Glossary_U#Unaligned, would make these personalities Unaligned. Right?
Cheers UK Ronin
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 30 August 2010