What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

A queen or princess is in a war against “bad” or “evil” king?

She puts together a team to help her.

There is a young, overweight mage sent from an island of mages. He is not held in high regard by those on the island. Eventually he loses weight and develops/utilizes “dragon scale? armor.” He returns to the island in a position of power.

There is a “knight” who is in love with a “lady in waiting” to the queen/princess.

This lady came from a working class background, but her father developed a way to shave a tiny bit of gold off of coins and she is very wealthy now.

The blushing knight who loves makes a comment about her at one point regarding “how can one woman make so many parts shake/move at one time as she walks?”

It seems like there is an older man who is on the team.

It seems like there is a male “hero” on the team, not the knight, who has a love/hate/love relationship with the queen/princess.

The team has 5+ members. They must deafest the enemy for “good to prevail.”

This is one of the "Tamuli" series by David Eddings.I don't remember an overweight mage or dragon-scale armour though. The whole series is a sequel to the "Elenium" series. Here's a description of the woman.

Melidere is a blonde haired, blue eyed baroness who also accompanies Ehlana in the visit to Matherion. She appears to be wide eyed and dim witted but this is in fact a ploy that she has constructed to protect herself as people are intimidated by “pretty intelligent women.” This ploy is particularly directed at Stragen as it amuses her, but eventually she drops it in front of all of them. Her father was not born a Baron but was in fact a simple blacksmith until he became rich after inventing tools that shave gold off coins, remill them so it’s undetectable, and hiring them out – it is stated that no gold coin in Eosia is in fact its correct weight thanks to him! With her inheritance Melidere paid an old Baroness to step aside for her, she also used her father’s invention to blackmail Stragen into a relationship with her by offering him the boundless riches that could be gained through the Daresian continent’s untouched coins and if he doesn’t agree she’ll have him killed. Though the wedding she proposes seems incidental to the business plan she had been slowly seducing him as they travelled across the Tamul continent. By “The Hidden City” he seems to have fallen in love with her as well, as he becomes furious when he finds out Elron stabs her.

Yes! The Tamuli Trilogy and the previous trilogy answer part of my search.

Thank you!


Now I need to find the book about the overweight wizard from the island.

Glad you found your book, Mark.

Domes of Fire (book 1) of The Tamuli series by David Eddings - Sue's find.