Senua
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice – Story and Ending Explained
Senua is the titular protagonist of Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, and the only individual you’ll control throughout the entirety of the game. She’s a young woman who suffers from severe psychosis. Her mind is overrun with thoughts and emotions that often paralyze her in fear and doubt. Voices plague her every waking moment and she’s bombarded with visions that are dark and twisted.
Throughout the story, she’s described as having something more than her sickness, though. She’s cursed with a darkness that punishes all those around her so her father keeps her home to keep her safe. Her mother, too, was touched by darkness and Senua is told that she did horrible things and eventually took her own life in order to spare those who came too close. The power that Senua has, the one that springs from the darkness, puts her in tune with the underworld so it’s feared that she will do terrible things just like her mother before her.
However, Senua feels that she can do more, that she can be better, so she goes out from time to time and observes people, and that’s how she meets Dillion. A young warrior who sees beyond the stigma surrounding the protagonist and falls in love. But, of course, with a title like Hellblade, you just know not everything is going to be rainbows and sunshine, and this meeting of two young hearts is set before the actual events of Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. It is tragedy that sets the ball in motion and places players into the dark, twisted world of the game.
