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This article contains lore based on real-life sources from Norse and Celtic Mythology as introduced in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.



Look. Up ahead. You see it too? Yes, it is real after all. She has finally arrived in the land of mist and fog. The place the northmen call Hel.
The land of mist and fog. The old fool was right. What was it he said? The river of knives across which lies the halls of Hel. The place they call Helheim. There’s no doubt about it. The source of the darkness is in Helheim. And the goddess Hela holds his soul there.
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Senua looks up at the mountain which makes up Helheim.

Helheim, also referered to as Hel, is the Norse realm of the dead and one of the nine worlds referred to in the legends of the Northmen. In Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Senua attempts to journey to Helheim in an effort to save her lover Dillion's soul from the clutches of its ruler, Hela.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice[]

Helheim is depicted in the game as a gigantic mountain, stretching high up enough to block out the sun. Its entire top half is covered by a large wooden structure that overhangs the bridge that leads to it on one side.

On the inside, Helheim is a dark maze of rooms and chambers that houses the great beast Garmr as its guardian. At the very top of the mountain, Hela waits in her sanctum for Senua to challenge her for Dillion's soul.

Norse mythology[]

Hel (Old Norse: hel) is an afterlife location in Norse mythology and paganism. It is ruled over by a being of the same name, Hel. In late Icelandic sources, varying descriptions of Hel are given and various figures are described as being buried with items that will facilitate their journey to Hel after their death. In the Poetic Edda, Brynhildr's trip to Hel after her death is described and Odin, while alive, also visits Hel upon his horse Sleipnir. In the Prose Edda, Baldr goes to Hel on his death and subsequently Hermóðr uses Sleipnir to attempt to retrieve him

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  • The structure on top of Helheim's mountain can be seen blocking out the sun almost like it has a pair of jaws. This is in reference to the Norse legends of Ragnarok, which signal that one of the early signs of the calamity is a great wolf swallowing the sun.
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