Garen
Legend of the Five Rings card from Broken Blades
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Personality
- Force
- 4
- Chi
- 3
- Honor Requirement
- -
- Gold Cost
- 7
- Personal Honor
- 0
- Clan
- Unaligned
- Keywords
- Naval, Shadowlands, Undead
- Card Text
- After Garen enters play, lose 4 Honor.
While attaching Human Followers, Garen has +1PH.
Garen's Human Followers have Shadowlands • Undead. - Legality
- Four Winds (Gold)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Broken Blades
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- "Since the Battle of White Stag, the gaijin has sailed the Seas of Shadow, waiting for vengeance." - Shahai
- Artist
- Thomas Manning
- Card Number
- 142
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: The Unaligned trait seems to be a fleeting thing in L5R -- not given as often as one would think, given to those you wouldn't expect, then taken away soon after. My friends and I looked in vain for useful ronin without clan alignments during the first arc (we'd given up by the second) -- they kept getting sucked up into Toturi's Army and YA.
Now we seem to have cut out the middle-man entirely. Why, Powers That Be, isn't the Unaligned trait on a few more Personalities in BB? Specifically, I ask because it is lacking on Garen and Katsu, prime candidates for it. If you wanted it there and this was a mistake, fine. But if there is a thematic reason, please clue us in, because it is utterly opaque.
A: We're deliberately using the "Unaligned" trait in a more intuitive manner now, typically only assigning it to Personalities who are affiliated with none of the Factions in the rulebook. That includes the Shadowlands, because, special affiliation rules notwithstanding, a Personailty with that trait is still conceptually "working for them" rather than being detached from every major group in the game. Jeff Alexander, "post for 22 August 2002", 23 Aug 2002