Approaching the forest from the west was no army, but a delegation of Grailsundanian master surgeons on their way to an appendix conference . But that isn't the craziest part of the story - oh, no, my boy, for approaching from the east was a party of itinerant watchmakers bound for the pocket-watch fair at Wimbleton . But not even that is the craziest part of the story! For apporaching from the south were over a hundred armourers and locksmiths on their way to Florinth, where some power-hungry prince had commissioned them to build a monstrous war machine . Well, that would be enough crazy coincedences for an averagely crazy story but the battle of Nurn Forest involved the most improbable coincedences in the history of Zamonia. For entering the forest, this time from the north came a delegation of alchemists. Walter Moers
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The idea in the quote is that the things that normally wouldn’t happen in a story are happening. If you have too many “coincidences” in your story, you might lose the readers attention.

Source: Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures

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