Xan Yi is one of the oldest men and the Empire and one of the most well known Bureaucrats in the Imperial Bureaucracy. In his youth he was one of the youngest people to receive the rank of Jinshi, and rose quickly through the ranks of the Bureaucracy to the upper echelons.
It is here he has worked tirelessly through the rule of four Emperors, working in many departments of the Ministry but for the past 15 years he has been head of the Record Keepers for the Imperial Capital, although it is widely known he offers advice and wields considerable influence is many other departments of the Ministry.
With a near savant memory and the sheer volume of knowledge contained in the Imperial Records it is said no other person known as much about the machine that is the empire.