#crawlersout

-chapter title brought to you by Gojo, because I adore him

-Cusco/Cuzco idk i’ve seen it spelt both ways

- Quechua one of the (many) native cultures of the cusco region

- The Bloodlands - a great book, also a region that’s basically the eastern bloc of the soviet union

- Supay are a legend of the region but not the way I’ve portrayed it. Took some liberties by having it associated with death to such a degree

- You can look up traditional indian wedding festivities if you want, they’re a lot of fun. It can be a weeklong affair, not just 3 days

- lehenga/dupatta - traditional indian clothing. GORGEOUS

- I feel like machu picchu needs no explanation. It was something of a summering locale for the aristocracy of cusco back during the incan empire. I don’t go into it, but I imagine parts of it have remained under some kind of magical barrier and those parts are still in use by the magical community, hence why it was a study abroad location for tom

- there is a train, but it wasn’t built until the 1950s or something like that. I feel like a site for the kings and nobility would be heavily warded by ancient barriers and therefore impossible to access via portkey or apparition, hence the walking

- plus I can just imagine tom being sooo pissed about it but deadset on going regardless because Knowledge(tm) 

- Technically yama is summoned, not Harry, but they’re connected now so she got pulled into that mess along with him. 

-kulaks I’m using it as a general term for peasants

- gulags, need no explanation

- dyadya - uncle, supposedly? just a general term for an older man but not an old old man

- baba yaga, superstition in eastern european cultures, there are plenty of fairy tales on her. She’s the quintessential evil old witch hag

- Volshebnik means wizard i think??

- idk i shouldn’t have annoyed myself with all the untranslated terms but I wanted it to be in Yuriy’s perspective

- that scene is probably hell for ESL readers so the jist is: Harry/Yama is summoned by a young boy as a final stand/act of revenge. He was born in the midst of the famine, his entire family starved to death, and he was pointed in the direction of an old witch by a wandering older man. The witch usually eats children but since the boy was actually unknowingly a wizard she takes him as an apprentice instead. The old lady eventually dies, and the boy wanders the ravaged countryside alone again. He’s so disgusted by what he sees, and also dying of starvation himself, and he invokes an ancient death ritual taught to him by the old witch and that’s how Harry ends up there. The strain of the ritual ends up killing him, but it was kind of a suicide since it was intentional?

- I love a good Gellert pov so here he is

- He used the same spell he used a couple chapters ago except this time he recognized where Harry was (eastern europe), and was able to use that to track her down. Also by the time he was in the general region the magic was so strong it was pretty easy to find her

- vedma - grandma

- Kurgan - a ceremonial burial of slavic origins, usually for kings/ aristocracy

- Morana, Mara , Marzanna, Morena, Mora - pagan slavic goddess associated with seasonal rites on the idea of death and rebirth of nature, Closest I could find to a goddess of death for the region. I chose Morana just because it seemed the most universal *shrugs*