For  proto

Second in a series of three, two explorers get hoplessly lost among troll ruins, and after cave-ins and pitfalls find themselves in a treasure trove of troll goodies. The two decide to seal up the temple behind them and comeback for it later, when the elder explorer hears a voice. He claims one small stick for his own, and tries to sneak it out of their encampment.

Shortly their after it starts to burn in his hands, and he begins to feel.... strange. He turns blue, grows and receives a drastic decrease in digits. While his friend, who happened to be looking into the skull as it went off, finds himself becoming scaly, and hungry. They eventually leave their new found ruins and enter as owner and mount into a small Darkspear troll encampment in the south.

Troll and raptor mount design © blizzard entertainment.
Art by me.