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 Wimbledon. . . But not even that is the craziest part of the story! For approaching from the south were over a hundred armorers and locksmiths on their way to Corinth, where some power-hungry prince had commissioned them to build a monstrous war machine. . . Well, that would be enough crazy coincidences for an averagely crazy story, but the battle of Turn Forest involved the most improbable coincidences in the history of Ammonia. For entering the forest, this time from the north came a delegation of alchemists.

Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures