Bunch of Questions about Rules.

Q#1 : My first question is about the >:< in card text. example ; the card

Iainuki Battle: Choose your performing bowed Kensai: Give a target enemy Personality -4F. If his Force is now 0, bow him and negate his movement (this turn). Straighten your Kensai's unit.

My question is whats the ruling on the effects after the : on card text.

Example #2

Relief Battle: Target one or more of your units at the current battlefield, and move all of those targets home: Target an equal number of your units at home. Move them to the current battlefield.

people say that after text before the : is all thats important the rest is just effects. so with this card if they attack with thier entire army they can use this card to send them all home, and sense they have no people left to send back into battle that the effects just dont happen, or dont have to happen. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Question #2: Are personality's performing strategies if the card says target? Example

Discretionary Valor Battle: Move your target opposed Personality home: Gain 1 Honor. Draw a card.

does that personality you target perform this action? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Question #3: Can Personality's perform actions while bowed? I read in the rule book that they cannot use their own printed abilitys, and does this apply to followers as well. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Question #4: People i play with say shugenjas can use spells even if they are bowed, is that true? Their defense is that the spell kicks off by its self, mine is ; then whats the point of even needing the shugenja in the first place. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question #5: Some cards create personality's, followers, or items. If the card the creates these doesn't say token after it, is it still considered a token and how long do they stay in play?

Question #6: rule book says cards actions can only be used once. Their is a player who uses the ring of void, he will bow it to draw a car, then use another card to put it in his hand then another card to bring it back into play, then he bows it to draw another card. Is this legal? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Question #7: this ones about bring personality's into play from a province during your dynasty phase. the rule book states 3 ways to pay for personality's, so what people i play with are doing, is if they have a personality's whos honor requirement is higher then their family honor, they are reducing their cost by 2 cause they are clan aligned, then they are paying 2 gold more to bring them into play and gain honor. Example:

Doji Domotai - exp 4 HR - 40 GC - 13

so they reduce her cost by 2 cause shes clan aligned, so she now costs GC - 11 and they can bring her into play with no honor gain, but sense she requires 40 honor, they just add two gold on to her cost to bring her into play for her orginal gold cost of 13 and gain the honor. Is this legal? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Question #8: If i use Honor's Hope on one of my personality's and it permanently gives him a battle action, if that personality dies, and i bring him back in to play later on, will he still have the battle action?