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7	-->When he who is {{the chosen one}}\
8	Shall tread upon this ancient path\
9	And battle there to overcome\
10	The forces of the dark\
11	Than shall the seven be restored\
12	And evil banished from this world
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14	A now-out-of-print fantasy series in 52 issues (split between two separate stories) created by author Frank Graves in the early Nineties, ''The Ancestral Trail'' narrates the story of TheChosenOne Richard, a young heterochromic boy who suddently finds himself whisked off to another dimension called The Ancestral World, where he learns of the task that only he can accomplish - to free that world from the oppressive yoke of the Evil One's forces and recover the seven Life Force Pods which will restore balance. Aided by the veteran warrior Orkan and the old scribe Melek, Richard sets off to a perilous adventure, meeting new allies along the way and rescuing the Guardians of the Life Force...
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16	After the first series' 26 issues, a second series follows, set in the desolate Cyber Dimension, where Richard is forced to confront even greater threats, until a climactic showdown with the Evil One himself...
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18	This series provides examples of:
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20	* ActionGirl: Kika. Okay, she's a wasp-girl... but she's still the only prominent female character in the story on the side of good.
21	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: As a kid, Richard was often made fun of because of his oddly-colored eyes. Subverted in that he never really took offense at that.
22	* AnimalMecha: Robot dinosaurs show up in issue 42.
23	* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler:Continuuma did not take her cousin Holotron's defeat well...]]
24	%%* BeamSpam: Zenon
25	* BearsAreBadNews: Most slaves in Enlil's Volcano were bear-men.
26	%%* BigBad: The Evil One
27	%%* BigCreepyCrawlies: Kika, Narkum, Cronid, and Dragora's scorpions.
28	* {{Brainwashed}}: Most of the inhabitants of the Ancestral World.
29	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Orkan, under the influence of Dragora's amulet.]]
30	* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve:
31	** [[spoiler:Holotron is not completely real -- it's his victim's mind that allows him to exist. If the victim actually manages to disbelieve, he's toast.]].
32	** This explicitly allows Melek's rope to stretch.
33	%%* {{Cliffhanger}}: Every issue.
34	%%* CoolMask: The Evil One
35	* DeadpanSnarker: Kika has some traces of this. Later on, Richard picks this up a little.
36	* DeathWorld: The Cyber Dimension is ''not'' a nice place. Plasma storms, oceans of quicksilver, barren landscapes, you name it.
37	%%* DemBones: Klaw
38	* DualityMotif: Richard has one green eye and one grey eye. The former sees the good, the latter the evil.
39	%%* DumbMuscle: Cragmar, Stridor. Spector, however, does manage to avert this.
40	* EasterEgg: All over the place. The back of each issue challenged the reader to find them all.
41	* EverythingTryingToKillYou: The Cyber Dimension in general, probably because anything that doesn't is dead already.
42	* ExoticWeaponSupremacy: Kika sure likes her blowgun, doesn't she?
43	* GenreShift: The series goes from fantasy to science fiction exactly halfway through.
44	* GhostShip: There's on in the service of Nemis.
45	* GiantSpider: Baal. And a pretty damn ''smart'' one at that, too!
46	* GladiatorGames: Malachit runs some.
47	* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:The Evil One's plan for dragging Richard in the Cyber World was to gradually siphon the boy's human qualities and transfer them into himself, so that he would become human and be able to enter Earth and conquer it. This worked all too well: by turning human, the Evil One became mortal like one, and was killed when Richard ran him through with Juroot's sword.]]
48	%%* GravitySucks: Tengam
49	* HiveMind: The petromites and their leader Cronid.
50	* ImAHumanitarian: Zock and the corrupted dwarves.
51	* KarmaHoudini: Hulkan, the evil giant mole who attacked Richard, Orkan and Melek in issue 14, never gets his comeuppance.
52	%%* LightIsNotGood: Zenon
53	* LogicBomb: In the Cyber Dimension saga, Richard defeats the Keeper in issue 33 by forcing it into one of these.
54	* MechanicalLifeform: Plenty of these in the Cyber Dimension.
55	* MixAndMatchCritters: Kronis, and a fair chunk of the Mythical Beasts.
56	%%* TheMole: [[spoiler:Robo]]
57	%%* {{Mooks}}: Cozards, Dark Robots
58	* MookMaker: Klaw can create skeletons by simply dropping bones onto the ground. Hulkan, on the other hand, creates his own mooks from mud.
59	* MouthfulOfPi: Richard uses this to defeat Mandelbiot.
60	%%* NonActionGuy: Melek
61	* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Nemis is pretty hideous.
62	* OurOrcsAreDifferent: Cozards are rather more intelligent and disciplined than most orcs.
63	* ThePowerOfFriendship" Allows [[spoiler:Robo]] to rewrite his own evil programming in issue 50.
64	* PlotCoupon: Pods and Guardians in the first half, Omni Pieces in the second.
65	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Shoomi & Shoobi, Teeza and the Wigmat in the Cyber Dimension.
66	* RobotBuddy: Robo in the Cyber Dimension saga.
67	* SacrificialLion: Almost literally. [[spoiler: The jaguar-man warrior Merkat]] stays around for one whole issue and proves his skills quite well [[spoiler: before he gets offed by Baal]].
68	%%* SdrawkcabName: Tengam and Elitper
69	* ShesAManInJapan: The Italian translation has Kika as a male.
70	* SiliconBasedLife: Wigmats, probably. They can touch Omni pieces without dying.
71	* ThreateningShark: Time Queen Continuuma morphs into a shark when attempting to finish off Richard.
72	* TurnedToStone: Mirra can turn creatures into stone by hitting them with her sickle. [[spoiler: Richard uses her sickle to turn her and Baal into statues.]]
73	%%* UnholyMatrimony: Enlil and Erna
74	%%* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Fenrar
75	* WarIsHell: The illustrations, especially in issue 26, openly show how war is a horrible thing never to be glorified.
76	* WickedWitch: There are two such witches in the Evil One's army. Mirra has the typical look of a decrepit hag, while Zibella is more of an HotWitch. [[spoiler:Or maybe not, considering she's the witch of illusions, and what Richard and his friends see is just a very advanced illusion masking her true hideous aspect.]]

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