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, 20 May 2011
If i play Crippling Weather and my oponent plays an action to move away from the battle, after that action's resolutios does the personality still bow?
For example, let's say i've played Crippling Weather against a ninja player:
a) He reacts with Bayushi Muhito xp2 and goes to another battlefield. Does Muhito bow after the action's resolution?
b) He plays Black Hearts, Red Blades and goes home. What happens with the targeted personalities?
Relevant text:
Crippling weather Winter Battle: Destroy all terrains in play. Until this battle ends, no new terrains may be played. After each time this battle an action ends, bow any Personalities who performed it.
Bayushi Muhito xp2 Reaction: After the resolution of another player's Battle action: Move Muhito to a different location.
Black Hearts, Red Blades Ninja Battle: Target two of your unbowed Ninja Personalities without non-Ninja Followers: Move them home. If both of them moved, discard any cards in the current battlefield's province and draw two cards.
Alex Jones (rules official), 20 May 2011
If i play Crippling Weather and my oponent plays an action to move away from the battle, after that action's resolutios does the personality still bow?
For example, let's say i've played Crippling Weather against a ninja player:
a) He reacts with Bayushi Muhito xp2 and goes to another battlefield. Does Muhito bow after the action's resolution?
b) He plays Black Hearts, Red Blades and goes home. What happens with the targeted personalities?
Relevant text:
Crippling weather Winter Battle: Destroy all terrains in play. Until this battle ends, no new terrains may be played. After each time this battle an action ends, bow any Personalities who performed it.
Bayushi Muhito xp2 Reaction: After the resolution of another player's Battle action: Move Muhito to a different location.
Black Hearts, Red Blades Ninja Battle: Target two of your unbowed Ninja Personalities without non-Ninja Followers: Move them home. If both of them moved, discard any cards in the current battlefield's province and draw two cards.
Crippling Weather bows any Personality who performs an action. It doesn't care whether it's a Battle action or a Reaction action, it doesn't care where the Personality is now, it doesn't care whether any other Personality or Follower also performed the action, it doesn't care whether the action came from an ability on the Personality, on a Strategy, on an attachment, on a Holding, Region, Event or Stronghold or in the rulebook.
"This battle" is a time frame, not a location. "This battlefield" or "The battlefield at this province" is a location.