Thread:Sophitzmoments/@comment-72.205.23.158-20190617133051/@comment-37609893-20190618010347

The Razor Company is an organized crime group that features in the mystery series, Assassins of the Empire. Along with The Phantom Syndicate, it serves as an arc villain for the first part of the series.

Description
Along with its enemies, The Phantom Syndicate, the Company is an organized crime group based in Wandsworth in South London and is engaged in a vicious mob war with the Syndicate over a dispute as to who "owns" the borough.

The Company believes itself worthy to rule the borough because it has been here for a longer period of time while the Syndicate believes it has the right to rule the borough because it is far more powerful and serves a "greater cause". Of the two crime groups, this one is also portrayed in the more sympathetic light and as necessarily evil, with this being reflected in their traffickers.

Traffickers working with The Phantom Syndicate are actually associates of The Blaze Order and supporting the war on their behalf, trying to use the war as a means to establish a cell in Wandsworth as a starting point for their conquest of London. Traffickers working with the Razor Company (except Charles Mills who is exploiting the war for his own ends) are depicted as former military personell who are only in the war because they believe there is no place for people like them in society and the war is their only source of income.

Furthermore, along with the Company, many of the traffickers according to Hermione Cogsmith the partner of Bartholomew Gosling ("The Bear"), have the same "necessarily evil" viewpoint as the Razor Company: They do what they have to do, because they know that something worse will happen if they don't).