Yi Clan

Yi Clan
Clan Information
Name	Yi (戌, Xū)
Head	Rikuson's aunt
Base of Operations	Western Capital
Series Information
Status	Inactive

The Yi Clan (戌 (い) の一族, I no Ichizoku^?) is a fallen clan that used to be the overseers of the Western Province. The clan was destroyed when they fell out of favor with the Empress Regnant seventeen years prior to the events of Light Novel Volume 11.

History

The Yi clan were one of the three clans from the founding of Li. The original governor of the Western Province was a woman, and many men made light of her gender and attempted to entice her for their political gain. As a result, the clan became matriarchal. Women of the Yi clan would bear children with men, but those men were not considered their husbands and were not mentioned or identified. The female children would be raised to continue running the clan, while the male children would grow up to become wandering merchants or join the Windreader Tribe.

Due to his insecurities and a desire to avenge the Windreader Tribe, Gyoku-ou sought to bring down the Yi clan. He sent a letter using Gyokuen's seal to the Imperial Palace alleging that the Yi clan claimed to have a son with the imperial bloodline, and that they were fraudulently reporting the amount of coal mined. Once an imperial edict was issued to destroy the Yi clan, a mob led by Gyoku-ou surrounded the their mansion, and killed most of the members. Rikuson survived due to being hidden in a chest by his mother and sister, while his cousins and aunt were evacuated.

After Gyokuen arrived back at the western capital, he traveled to the imperial palace to protest the edict as a former member of the Yi clan. Though the government refused to retract their edict, Gyokuen was able to stop the Yi clan survivors from being hunted down and become the new governor of the Western Province.

Members

• Gyokuen (former)
• Rikuson's mother^†
• Rikuson's aunt^†
• Rikuson's younger aunt
• Rikuson's sister^†
• Rikuson
• Haku-u
• Koku-u
• Seki-u

^† = Deceased

Family Tree

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Trivia

• Their name corresponds to the dog of the zodiac.