A decent audio drama, but I am struggling to unpick my excitement that comes from seeing characters and things I know a like, what the story gestures towards, and what it actually does contain and how it does it.

See the lack of Garro and colon from the beginning of this title, that's because this is the other two classic Grey Boys on a whacky adventure to Caliban to see if Luther or anyone knows what's up with the whole Heresy shenanigans.

A quick jaunt to the planet Grimdark ages that probably sets something up, but doesn't really do anything itself, beyond a few cool scenes.

***Spoilers Below***

I will always be excited to Loken and Qruze and Luther and Loken have a meeting of minds and fists, and seeing certain mysterious lil cuties having a cryptic chat with Loken is obviously tailored made to make ridiculous nerds like me get ridiculous hype. Also, touching base with Z or N, I forget which ended up where...I think it's Z on Caliban?

But nothing really happens and the one moment that could have really been full of pathos and tragedy kinda got skimmed over.

While this is much, much better than when Star Wars does the references just to do references thing, this feels a bit like that, which is a shame because the only reason it actually feels like that is the lack of actual story and emotional weight. A little more heft on the feels and a bit more of a narrative would largely solve this issue and make it a much better audio drama.

This is the worst of the proto Grey Knights audio dramas, Garro: Ashes of Fealty takes that prize, if I remember correctly - I've listened to the whole collection in a few days - but this comes a close second. Both suffer from being too short and feeling like being a teaser for a coming story and/ or a being costrcuted around a scene opposed to an actual narrative.

The hit rate and general quality of the Knight Errant stories are still pretty great and the Errant Knights collection is great. Still planning to read the Novella and digital shorts to finish off the main Heresy Garro story (outside of the all of the everything actually reconstructed into a story, the novel, Garro), and I've heard good things about the three Blackshields audio dramas. ( )