Nikaru vs delay + feign death

L5R CCG Rules board, 26 July 2012 to 28 July 2012

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, 26 July 2012

I use hiruma nikaru on my opponent's personality. My opponent delays the effect using the stronghold Halls of the Forgotten. His personality dies at battle resolution. Is he able to use feign death?

Jon Palmer (rules official), 28 July 2012

I use hiruma nikaru on my opponent's personality. My opponent delays the effect using the stronghold Halls of the Forgotten. His personality dies at battle resolution. Is he able to use feign death?

The trigger for Feign Death in this case is the resolution of an action that kills a Personality. There will never be a legal trigger for Feign Death if the killing action is delayed by Halls of the Forgotten.