Helsreach Finale – A Warhammer 40k Story

The final episode of the Warhammer 40k fan film created by writer/director Richard Boylan. People, this is a one-man effort! Outstanding! Two exclamations in one sentence? That’s right! No, make that three. This homage to the novel “Helsreach” by author Aaron Dembski-Bowden is a beautiful thing to behold. Boylan used the Helsreach” audiobook narration as a voiceover for the thirteen-part film. Alternating between shadowy black and white and color, the stylistic approach to the film highlights the harsh realities of war and the valor, blood, and guts and human connection that play out on the battlefield.

If you are new to the story start here (Parts 1 through 10): Helsreach 1 through 10

Then watch them in this order Part Eleven, Part Twelve, and the finale above, Part Thirteen.

We are judged in life for the evil we destroy. It is a bleak truth that there is nothing but blood awaiting us in the spaces between the stars, but the emperor sees all that transpires in his domain, and we are judged equally for the illumination we bring to the blackest nights. We are judged in life for those moments we spill light into the darkest reaches of his imperium. Your world taught me this. Your world and the war that brought me here.

~Grimaldus, Reclusiarch of the Black Templars