Perfection is not inherited. It is proven.

While other corporations see the Wake as a resource to exploit or a system to control, Kenshin Industrial sees it as a crucible.

Kenshin has built a corporate empire around the belief that civilization advances through competition. Weak institutions should be replaced by stronger ones. Inferior methods should yield to superior performance. Individuals become worthy not through comfort, compliance, or good intentions, but through the discipline required to endure adversity without surrendering their code.

This is the Path of the Razor’s Edge: conflict as examination, hardship as refinement, and victory as evidence that the survivor deserved to prevail.

The Warrior Corporation

Kenshin Industrial is organized through powerful Clans whose influence extends across manufacturing, military contracting, research, salvage, and political power. Each Clan cultivates its own traditions, rivalries, specialties, and interpretation of the Razor’s Edge.

The corporation presents discipline, honor, technical excellence, and personal mastery as the foundations of a renewed civilization. Its arcologies are spare, exacting, and deliberately demanding. Comfort is treated with suspicion. Idleness is weakness. Every citizen is expected to pursue improvement under the observation of peers who have spent their lives judging adherence to standards that cannot be reduced to a simple score.

Where CAD residents are measured by a system, Kenshin citizens are measured by one another.

The Path of the Razor’s Edge

Kenshin does not embrace conflict merely for profit. Conflict reveals capability. It strips away pretension, exposes weakness, and creates opportunities for superior individuals, Clans, and systems to replace those that can no longer justify their existence.

The Path is not a written checklist. A rule that can be reduced to numbers can be manipulated. Kenshin instead relies upon tradition, reputation, witnessed conduct, and the judgment of those who have themselves survived the same trials.

This creates operatives of extraordinary discipline and initiative. It also creates a culture in which mercy may be interpreted as weakness, failure becomes a public identity, and every alliance contains the possibility of becoming another test.

Clan, Honor, and Ambition

Kenshin’s Clan structure produces some of the most capable individuals in the Wake, but it also limits centralized accountability. Operatives answer to personal codes, Clan obligations, corporate interests, and inherited rivalries that do not always align.

A Kenshin agent may be an honorable ally, a ruthless competitor, or both at once. Agreements are respected because reputation matters. Constraints are obeyed until obedience itself begins to look like weakness.

Masters of the Engineered Battlefield

Kenshin combines disciplined infantry, advanced weapons, precision engineering, and powerful combat machines. Its forces favor deliberate positioning, decisive engagements, personal initiative, and close-range superiority.

Kenshin technology is designed to display control rather than conceal it. Its armor, interfaces, weapons, and machines embody the same ideal as its operatives: visible competence, refined through pressure and proven through performance.

Inside This Book

• A complete history and overview of Kenshin Industrial;
• The Path of the Razor’s Edge and Kenshin’s philosophy of conflict, competition, and personal refinement;
• The Clan system, internal rivalries, corporate hierarchy, and competing interpretations of honor;
• Kenshin arcologies, social structures, ceremonies, obligations, and daily life;
• Military doctrine, weapons, armor, advanced technology, and combat machines;
• Character backgrounds, operative concepts, and campaign guidance for Deadwake roleplaying;
• Faction rules, units, abilities, and tactical options for Deadwake miniatures play;
• Mission seeds, scenarios, rivalries, and campaign conflicts;
• Major personalities, sample operatives, and faction terminology; and
• Guidance for using Kenshin as patrons, allies, rivals, player characters, or antagonists.

Kenshin in Roleplaying Campaigns

Kenshin characters are shaped by competing obligations. They may serve a Clan, pursue personal perfection, defend inherited honor, challenge a superior, recover lost technology, or prove that their methods deserve to replace those of a rival.

Campaigns involving Kenshin naturally emphasize reputation, rivalry, witnessed conduct, divided loyalties, and the difference between possessing a code and using one to justify ambition.

Kenshin in Miniatures Play

Kenshin forces reward discipline, deliberate movement, strong individual operatives, and decisive attacks. Their troops and combat machines are built to seize the initiative, endure pressure, and turn moments of tactical superiority into irreversible advantage.

The faction is powerful when its warriors can fight according to their chosen plan. Its greatest danger comes when pride, rivalry, or the demand to prove superiority draws its operatives into battles they should have avoided.

Using This Sourcebook

This book supports both the Deadwake Role Playing Rules and the Deadwake Miniatures Combat Rules. It contains material for players, Facilitators, miniatures commanders, and readers interested in the factions and political structures of the Wake.

The appropriate core rulebook is required to use the included roleplaying or miniatures mechanics.

Book Details

• Author: Jon Compton
• Publisher: Canvas Temple Publishing, LLC
• Format: Paperback
• Length: 88 pages
• Dimensions: Approximately 7.44 × 9.69 inches
• Language: English
• Publication Date: May 9, 2026
• ISBN-10: 1969445157
• ISBN-13: 9781969445156

The digital edition is sold separately through WargameVault. This listing is for the physical paperback edition.