The Last One Personality + Exotic Goods

L5R CCG Rules board, 12 March 2011

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 March 2011

Card Text: The Last One: Open: Target your Personality: Destroy all of your other Personalities. If this destroyed at least four Personalities, permanently give your targeted Personality +4F, and until the end of the game, negate effects of other player's actions that bow, dishonor, move, or destroy him.

Card Text: Exotic Goods: Open: Choose your performing Artisan Personality: Target another player's unbowed Personality. His controller may bow him. If he did not bow, gain 1 Honour.

My question: Does the may in "His controller may bow him." allow a Last One personality to bow for this or does the negation provided by the last one automatically override it?

I found this reference: A choice may be made even if its consequences would be negated, prevented, or otherwise fail due to lack of suitable things to affect. Example: If a Personality is already bowed, or will not bow due to an effect, you may still make a choice to bow him. If you do not control any unbowed Personalities, you may also make a choice to “bow an unbowed Personality,” which just fails.

Zen Faulkes (rules official), 12 March 2011

Exotic Goods: Does the may in "His controller may bow him." allow a Last One personality to bow for this or does the negation provided by the last one automatically override it?

The Last One prevents any effect from another player's card that would bow the Personality. Yes, even if the controller would like to bow the Personality. And yes, it is still an effect from another player's action, even if the controller of the Personality affected by the last one is making the decision to apply it or not.

And note that Exotic Goods looks for whether the card bowed, not what the controller decided or chose.

On: The Last One, Exotic Goods