Dillion and the Plague
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice – Story and Ending Explained
While meeting Dillion was certainly a bright spot in Senua’s often dark world, a blight would come to wipe away any happiness she held. In time, a plague would fall over her village, slowly wiping away countless members of her tribe, including Dillion’s father. The death sent him into a rage, one where even he, Senua’s only ray of light in a world of isolation and fear, lashed out at her. When he passed, Senua could only think of the love she lost and how his anger would have left his soul tortured.
Believing that she was the cause of the plague, due to her curse, she feels to blame for her love’s passing and seeks to save his soul. With that singular purpose in mind she sets out for Helheim, the underworld known to many of us as hell itself. It is here, in the hottest, darkest recesses, that Senua believes she can find and free Dillion’s soul from the torture it’s been subjected to. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice opens with our protagonist first setting foot upon Helheim’s shores, and this is exactly when everything gets really deep.
