D'nir'ch

Legend of the Five Rings card from Dawn of the Empire

Card Type

Personality

Force

3

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

6

Personal Honor

1

Clan

Ratling

Keywords

Nonhuman, Ratling

Card Text

Battle, : Target a Ratling Personality. Create a +1F/+1C Weapon Item and attach it to him.

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: I have played Heart of a Hero. Now I pay 2 Gold to create a Weapon Item token from D'nir'ch's Battle action.
  How is the Weapon Item token? A) +1F/+1C B) +4F/+1C
  I see in DE Rulebook, Overview of Cards Type: Items, pag.47 that Items has: A. Force bonus; B. Name; C. Chi bonus; D. Gold cost; E. Traits, abilities, and flavor text; F. Focus value
  The Item is created by an action. The Item has a stat named "Force Bonus" But I don't know if the +3F is granted to this stat or not.
  If finally the answer is "A) +1F/+1C" please explain it.
  A: The Item itself is +1F/+1C.
  The bonus it actually gives to the Personality it is attached to, for as long as it remains attached, is +4.
  Having a +1F weapon normally confers a +1F bonus to the wielder. Other effects can change this bonus to the Personality without actually altering the Item itself. Heart of a Hero is one of those kinds of effects.
  So, when you take an Action to create that Item, a Personality gains the Item, and instead of getting the "normal" +1F from a +1F Item, he gains a +4F bonus. If that bonus ever ends due to the Item no longer being attached, future bonuses conferred by attaching the item are distinct from that old one. They won't have that +3F increase from Heart of a Hero the original bonus received. Martin Lund, "Rules for 19 January 2005", 24 Jan 2005