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 February 2012
I play You Clan Needs You on personality A during a battle and attach a card to him (for example a Weapon with The Spider's Web trait). The battle ends with my side winning and A still alive and equipped. He goes to one of my provinces, but what happens to his attachment?
http://rules.l5r.com/EE_Card_types#Attachments says: When a Personality leaves play, all his attached cards leave play in the same manner as he did.
Since a Fate card cannot be in a province, the rule cannot be applied unless the Fate Hand is considered the equivalent of the provinces for the Dynasty cards. So my question is: is the attachment discarded, or does it return to my hand?
Your Clan Needs You! Battle: If any enemy units are at the current battlefield, choose your performing Personality in one of your provinces: Bring him into play at the current battlefield, paying all costs but paying 6 less Gold. After the battle ends, if he is in play, discard all his attachments and put him face up into one of your provinces, face-up, discarding any card there.
Jon Palmer (rules official), 21 February 2012
I play You Clan Needs You on personality A during a battle and attach a card to him (for example a Weapon with The Spider's Web trait). The battle ends with my side winning and A still alive and equipped. He goes to one of my provinces, but what happens to his attachment?
http://rules.l5r.com/EE_Card_types#Attachments says: When a Personality leaves play, all his attached cards leave play in the same manner as he did.
Since a Fate card cannot be in a province, the rule cannot be applied unless the Fate Hand is considered the equivalent of the provinces for the Dynasty cards. So my question is: is the attachment discarded, or does it return to my hand?
Your Clan Needs You! Battle: If any enemy units are at the current battlefield, choose your performing Personality in one of your provinces: Bring him into play at the current battlefield, paying all costs but paying 6 less Gold. After the battle ends, if he is in play, discard all his attachments and put him face up into one of your provinces, face-up, discarding any card there.
At this point, once the Personality returns to the Province you would apply "An attachment that finds itself in play without a Personality is immediately and continually discarded, unless an effect allows this state."