The first
expansion set for the
Legend of the Five Rings CCG following the release of
Pearl Edition,
Honor-Bound is where the
Hidden Emperor story arc begins to kick into high gear.
While
Toturi has returned, the
Emerald Empire has only just begun to fight.
The Crab Clan finally secures
Hiruma Castle as the
Nezumi prove their strength, and can only now begin recovering from the sheer exhaustion of the task- the
Shadowlands Horde, meanwhile, having lost their one reason to cooperate for the time, have fallen even further into their own war. On the other side of the Empire, though, the
Scorpion have suddenly broken their exile, and they have not returned from the
Burning Sands alone... the
Unicorn kami,
Shinjo, rides with them, and boy is she pissed.
Crane still fight against Crane, the
Daidoji daimyo against the
Doji daimyo; the
Lion and
Unicorn continue to battle, as do
Yoritomo's Alliance and the
Phoenix.
Honor Bound came with three new
Strongholds for three Clans: for the Scorpion, the
Towers of the Yogo, for the Crab,
The Citadel of the Hiruma, and for the Shadowlands, the
Sepulcher of Bone. Each
starter deck featured one of the new Strongholds and continued the partially-fixed card trend as seen in
Pearl Edition, making
sealed deck play a viable possibility.
Booster packs came eleven cards apiece.