Night of Madness

The people of Ethshar had been calmly going about their lives until the night something happened, and thousands of people woke up screaming. Hundreds vanished, never to be seen again; many were seen flying away, never to return; and many of those who stayed behind found they had been blessed — or cursed — with a new kind of magic.
And it fell to Lord Hanner, a minor bureaucrat, to try to find a place in the World for these new-made magicians — before the overlord or the Wizards' Guild exterminated them!