The Truth About Her Father and the Fight With Hela
Hellblade: Ending Explained, What Happened
After hearing the truth about Druth, Senua starts to remember something she buried in her mind long ago, the death of her mother. Throughout the game, it’s said that Senua’s mother killed herself in order to spare those around her from her darkness. Like Senua, she suffered from psychosis, and many saw it as a curse that brought about bad tidings. Deaths, storms, bad luck, and more were believed to be caused by her. Yet, she didn’t kill herself, though she did try very hard to not have people suffer. Instead, it was Senua’s father who led the village as they burned her alive as if she were a witch. It was what the gods demanded.
This memory of her mother’s death brings other thoughts rushing back as well. How her father abused her mother, kept Senua locked up and terrified, convinced her that she was cursed and that all bad things happened because of her. How it was all due to the gods and he was just trying to protect her. A rage builds up inside her and she believes that Hela is actually her father and she goes to face her. She starts to go through all the stages of grief as she moves to confront the last demon holding her love hostage.
During the fight with Hela, Senua is confronted by all of her demons once again. Valravn, Surtr, and Fenrir wield their ugly heads as more enemies continue to assault her, but by sheer force of will she breaks through only to see that she cannot harm Hela. Voices are constantly screaming in her head, telling her to give up, that she must give in in order to see this through. Endless enemies swarm Senua until she finally breaks and allows her self to fall to their blades.
Her anger is at its highest as Hela sits over her, just staring blankly, but that eventually descends into her pleading for Dillion, her lost love, and willing to give up herself. In the end, she chooses to just accept her fate as Hela drives her sword into Senua’s chest. Senua is dead, after vowing to not let her father take her life or have any further control over her it is done. We next see Hela, holding Dillion’s skull that Senua carried throughout the entire game, staring into its empty sockets. It’s not until Senua dies, though, that Hellblade’s story all comes together.
