Follow the Path

Legend of the Five Rings card from An Oni's Fury

Card Type: Spell
Gold Cost: 3
Card Text: Battle: Any number of times per turn, bow this Shugenja, target a Follower on a target Personality, and target another Personality controlled by the same player: Transfer the Follower to the second targeted Personality.
Focus Value: 3
Legality: Four Winds (Gold)
Deck: Fate

Printings

Rarity: Uncommon
Flavor Text: "Tsudao has begun to conscript every able-bodied peasent she can find. Is she hoping to fight the Tsuno, or does she merely hope to recruit them before her brother?" - Kaeru Kenko
Artist: Christina Wald
Card Number: 149
Publisher: Alderac Entertainment Group

Targets Personalities involved as well as Followers. [JA, 14 December 2001] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 63

Q: does the personality where the follower is moved to have to be unbowed ?
A: Not inherently, no, but you cannot use Follow the Path to move Followers onto your own bowed Personality because that would require targeting your own bowed Personality with your action. Jeff Alexander, "post for 11 October 2002", 12 Oct 2002
Q: hi , i have some question about this spell : Type Spell Title Follow the Path Rarity/Edition U An Oni's Fury Text Battle: Bow this Shugenja to move a Follower from one Personality to another controlled by the same player. Gold 3 Focus 3 Artist Christina Wald
1.- i have a shugenja with this spell in my fief and one of my personality in battle opposing by two personality (one bowed and one unbowed with a follower ) and my opponent have one personality in him fief , Can i move the follower from unbowed personality to bowed personality?
A: Let's see.
Do you satisfy the Rule of Presence? Yes -- you have a unit in the current battle.
Do you satisfy the Rule of Relevance? Yes -- you are targeting at least one card in the battle (the Follower).
Does Follow the Path say anything about requiring the shugenja to be in the battle? No.
It's legal! Jeff Alexander, "post for 14 June 2002", 15 Jun 2002