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is this a legal play?:

Hero with banding ability has been set-aside on gathering.  When hero enters battle, he uses his ability to band to a character, then that character bands to another character who places an enhancement on another character in territory.  origional hero then uses gathering to band into battle the hero from territory that has the placed enhancement on him.

I'm actually not sure. Banding abilities generally happen simultaneously (at least, that's how I've had it ruled with stuff like CotW, Mary Mother of James, etc.) so I would think both heroes you're banding to would be in battle before you activate either of their abilities (so before the enhancement is placed).

"May band to Salome, Mary Magdalene, and/or Joanna" technically counts as separate abilities, too (because you choose individually which bands you are going to use) so I see no reason to treat them differently.

Like I said, I'm not sure. I can see it either way.

To clarify, the reason this is different than MtMoJ is that multiple abilities activate first in order of abilities (banding last and that sort of thing), then in order printed on card. That's why DoN doesn't kill LotS (it's Discard, then Negate Discarded, rather than negate, then Discard). If you Gather a Hero with a banding ability, it essentially reads "band to a Hero. Band to a Hero." The first band, and everything that entails happens, then the second band happens.