The Fantasy Review’s list of 6 Classic Fantasy Books with Epic Quests.
Master of the Five Magics (Magics, #1) by Lyndon Hardy
From the blurb:
Based on the magic folklore of our own world, the quest of Alodar, the journeyman, takes him from one form of magic to the next, each with its own unique rules and constraints. Each step requiring him to press on. Each one bringing everyone in the universe closer and closer to everlasting enslavement…
The Bishop’s Heir (Histories of King Kelson, #1) by Katherine Kurtz
From the blurb:
For centuries, a powerful faction of the Holy Church in Gwynedd has been at war with the Deryni, the mysterious race whose magic is despised and feared by those who lack their remarkable arcane abilities. The bloodshed ended with the coronation of the popular young King Kelson Haldane, himself a possessor of Deryni magic—but the peace is short-lived…
Azure Bonds (Forgotten Realms: Finder’s Stone, #1) by Kate Novak
From the blurb:
Alias is an excellent warrior but she is in serious difficulties. One day she wakes up with blue, twisting and magical runes inscribed on her right arm, and with total amnesia about the circumstances that surround the tattoo. Ready to unveil the impenetrable mystery, Alias forms a group that integrates a series of heterogeneous characters…
Magic’s Pawn (The Last Herald-Mage, #1) by Mercedes Lackey
From the blurb:
Though Vanyel has been born with near-legendary abilities to work both Herald and Mage magic, he wanted no part in such things. Nor does he seek a warrior’s path, wishing instead to become a Bard.
Yet such talent as his, if left untrained, may prove a menace not only to Vanyel but to others as well. So he is sent to be fostered with his aunt, Savil, one of the fame Herald-Mages of Valdemar…
The Tower of Fear by Glen Cook
From the blurb:
The City of Qushmarrah is uneasy under the rule of the Herodians —short, balding men whose armies would never have conquered the city had not the great and evil wizard Narkar been killed and sealed in his citadel; had not the savage nomad Datars turned coat and sided with the invaders; had not some traitor opened the fortress to them…
The Many-Coloured Land (Saga of Pliocene Exile, #1) by Julian May
From the blurb:
In the year 2034, Theo Guderian, a French physicist, made an amusing but impractical discovery: the means to use a one-way, fixed-focus time warp that opened into a place in the Rhone River valley during the idyllic Pliocene Epoch, six million years ago. But, as time went on, a certain usefulness developed…
