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, 9 December 2010
What happens if i play Endless Rain, bowing 1 of my personalities or followers in able to get it back into my hand but my opponent reacts w/ Consuming the Flesh? Do i still get my cards back into my hand b/c i paid the costs or does it go to the discard pile because the action never happened even if i paid the costs?
Endless Rain Battle: Choose your performing Personality or Follower, and you may bow it: Ranged 2 Attack. If you bowed a card to pay this action's cost, put this card into your hand instead of discarding it after the action's resolution.
Consuming the Flesh Reaction: After another player's action targets one of your Personalities in your current army, destroy the Personality and bow this card: The action's effects do not happen. Create a 2F/2C/0PH Shadowlands • Undead Personality at the current battlefield. Lose 3 Honor.
Thank you.
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 9 December 2010
What happens if i play Endless Rain, bowing 1 of my personalities or followers in able to get it back into my hand but my opponent reacts w/ Consuming the Flesh? Do i still get my cards back into my hand b/c i paid the costs or does it go to the discard pile because the action never happened even if i paid the costs?
The latter; you do not get it back.
Consuming the Flesh causes all of Endless Rain's effects to "not happen", including the returning of it to your hand, despite you paying the cost for it.