Fantasy
Baen Books
1993
353
Five men from Yurt--the king, his nephew, the prince, a wizard, and a priest--encounter intrigue, treachery, black magic, and a big blue djinn on their journey, and only the wizard's cleverness can save their lives. Original.
Mage Quest is another fun book in the Daimbert series. This book is somewhat different in that it doesn’t take place in the Kingdom of Yurt (for long) – it involves a quest, or actually several different quests that all lead to the lands of the East. The King of Yurt goes to find a blue rose, Dominic (the King’s nephew) goes to visit the grave of his father, Joachim (the Chaplain of Yurt) goes to visit sites in the Holy Land, and Daimbert goes to see what he can learn of Eastern Magic. The origin of the quest, though, is to find Sir Hugo. He went with a small party to the East and went missing.
The descriptions of the East are great, and mirror the Middle East in the Middle Ages. The group encounters strange magic and strange people, and I very much enjoyed the plot and development of the characters.