Should a samurai gain all bonus (traits and skills) when purchasing the Multiple Schools advantage?

Question

The L5R-1ed core rulebook states, in the character creation section:

[...]Your character's training in that school will give him a few bonus starting Traits and Skills.

On one hand this is pretty straightforward: training at that dojo gave you the chance to practice [bonus skills] and overall increased your [bonus trait].

On the other hand, it says "bonus starting Traits and Skills" which makes me suspect that these bonuses can only be gained at character creation phase.

Now, the Multiple Schools advantage allows a character to interrupt his current learning path and switch to a new school, which sparks two questions:

• Does the character gain the bonus trait and skills from the new school as well?
• If so, how do we treat bonus skill points? Two options imho:
  • bonus skill points are eventually added to existing skill ranks (e.g. a Lion bushi with a kenjutsu of 3 enters the Hida school - which gives starting Kenjutsu 1 - and gains an overall rank of 4)
  • a character only keeps the highest value between his current rank and the bonus skill points (e.g. a Lion bushi with a kenjutsu of 3 enters the Hida school - which gives starting Kenjutsu 1 - and does just keeps his rank of 3)

Thank you in advance to all who will contribute.

Answer 1

You interrupt your current progress to switch to another school, its about insight and learning techniques only. So you begin with Rank 1 technique in a school, then later "in the game" you take that feat for your Rank 2 technique and beyond. It is not a character creation feat in 1st edition.

This is an unusual advantage, in that it can only be bought after a bushi (and only a bushi and only to another bushi school) has progressed beyond Rank 1 in his School. GM permitting, this advantage lets the player switch schools without losing his old techniques. When the bushi switches schools, his old Techniques are "frozen." He won't learn any further techniques from his old school, but he'll begin learning new techniques in his new school immediately. As soon as he gains permission to begin training at the new school, he more-or-less immediately learns the Rank 1 Technique (GM's discretion on the length of training necessary, but probably not longer than 3 to 6 game months). The bushi then begins gaining Techniques in his new school as his Insight goes up, just as usual.