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[Nitpicking]

8 hours ago, king of nowhere said:

what are you referring to? i am not aware of sazed manipulating fortune to cause stuff. he helped wax in various ways, but in a "point him in the right direction and give him some stuff" way.

Pre-Sazed. Fuzz's plan.

[Elegy he/him]

Coincidences don't have to be a Shard's plan anyway:

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Kalanit Taub

When Jasnah picks up the bead for the palace, is that the same bead that Shallan picks up in Oathbringer?

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah.

Kalanit Taub

Is that a coincidence or is there something else...?

Brandon Sanderson

So, whenever things like that happen you can assume there's little bits of Connection going on that's changing the probability a little bit. You're not meant to read much into it, but the probability is increased because of thing like that.

And you'll find, if you look really closely, there are connections between the characters that are really subtle that I'm doing, that anyone who's touching the Spiritual Realm or thing like that. For instance, in the second book, Syl turns into Shallan while Shallan is washed up on the beach while Syl is talking to Kaladin somewhere else. There's enough Connection going on that you see Syl change shapes, and Kal's like, "It looks like she's walking on a beach!"

It's just Syl... because through all of that, is turning into... You'll find things like that <happening> all through the books, really subtle, really small. There's just meant to be, one of the things in the Cosmere is Connection. Your Connection to people, Connection to things, places, influences probability a little bit.

ICon 2019 (Oct. 15, 2019)

Although it's certainly fair to criticize the idea that every (possibly just lazy) coincidence in the books can be explained away by Spiritual stuff ... but it technically can