Palace of the Breaking Dawn

Legend of the Five Rings card from Emperor Edition, Promotional–Celestial

Card Type

Stronghold

Province Strength

7

Gold Production

3

Starting Family Honor

2

Clan

Unaligned

Card Text

Your Ronin cards enter play for 1 less Gold and ignoring Honor Requirements.
Tireless Battle: Give your chosen performing opposed Ronin Personality +2F.

Legality

Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Pre-Game

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Palace of the Breaking Dawn 7PS 3G 2FH Your Ronin cards enter play paying 1 less Gold and ignoring Honor Requirements. Battle: Even if this card is bowed: Give your target opposed Ronin Personality +2F." Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 148
• This card is an online, proxy-only promotional Stronghold with no Clan alignment. Players may use a printed proxy copy of the stronghold for any tournament as of March 1st, 2010. All text on the card must be clearly visible, so use a good printer. The Stronghold will continue to be legal through the rest of the 2010 Kotei season, and may or may not remain legal after that depending on storyline results. [Online promotional card, 1 March 2010] Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 148

Rules Q&A

• Q: Can i play fe. Palace of the Breaking Dawn with Kobi Sensei?
  http://rules.alderac.com/cr_for_20f/#sensei
  A: Yes, as it says "All Clans". Alex Jones, "All Clans Sensei and Unaligned Strongholds", 19 May 2015
• Q: I am playing Palace of the Breaking Dawn in Big Deck.
  From the rulebook:
  Since I do not have a clan alignment, does that mean I am free to recruit any personality for their printed gold cost, without pay the 2-gold "out of Clan" tax?
  A: No Personality has your Clan Alignment: you must pay 2 more Gold for any Personality with a Clan Alignment. Alex Jones, "Unaligned Players Recruiting Personalities with Alignments", 18 Nov 2014
• Q: Palace of the Breaking Dawn says your Ronin cards enter play paying 1 less Gold and ignoring Honor Requirements. But the Comprehensive Rules have nothing defining what a Ronin is.
  So what is a Ronin card? Any unaligned personality? Any unaligned human personality?
  Also, Comprehensive Rules search function doesn't work.
  A: A ronin card is any card with the "Ronin" keyword; that's all.
  And yes, I'm sorry, but it's an unavoidable fact of the wiki that it's horribly unsearchable. Brook Cunningham, "Palace of the Breaking Dawn", 17 Apr 2012
• Q: Palace of the Breaking Dawn players normally have no clan alignment.
  Open Recruitment
  But
  Although Unaligned is not a keyword, the event is granting "your clan alignment." Would that event grant a "those card effects" application? Would the unaligned people that show up for those 2 turns gain a clan alignment that only applies to the player, in that game, despite not matching a great clan? For example, would a card effect that grants "my clan alignment" grant something akin to a temporary "Eric's Clan" clan alignment?
  A: If you have no Clan Alignment, Open Recruitment will do nothing for you. Alex Jones, "Open Recruitment and Palace of the Breaking Dawn", 21 Mar 2012
• Q: If one is playing Ronin out of Palace of the Breaking Dawn, what does Heartlands create?
  A: A Personality with no alignment related keywords at all. Not "Ronin." Not "Unaligned." Not anything.
  http://rules.l5r.com/CE_The_Player#Clan_alignment: "A player using an unaligned Stronghold (one with no Clan alignment) has no Clan alignment. An unaligned player does not have the same Clan alignment as unaligned Personalities. " Zen Faulkes, "Heartlands region", 23 Aug 2010