Does this card have to stop the first honor loss? it doesn't say you may destroy this card.
Before you lose Honor, destroy this card: Negate the Honor loss. Limited: If your Family Honor is 9 or lower, bow this card: Gain 1 Honor.
Ten Thousand Temples
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.
Does this card have to stop the first honor loss? it doesn't say you may destroy this card.
Before you lose Honor, destroy this card: Negate the Honor loss. Limited: If your Family Honor is 9 or lower, bow this card: Gain 1 Honor.
That is correct. As written, it will always stop the first honor loss it has a chance to stop.