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Shall tread upon this ancient path
And battle there to overcome
The forces of the dark
Than shall the seven be restored
And evil banished from this world }}
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 [[The Chosen One]] Richard, a young [[Mismatched Eyes|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...
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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* [[Action Girl]] (Kika. Okay, she's a wasp-girl... but she's still the only prominent female character in the story on the side of good.)
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]] (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.)
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* [[Beam Spam]] (Zenon)
* [[Big Bad]] (The Evil One)
* [[Big Creepy
* [[Boring Invincible Hero]] (Averted, believe it or not. Being [[The Chosen One]] does ''not'' make things easier for Richard, and he's often forced to retreat in the face of superior enemies like Sumar or Hulkan.)
* [[Brainwashed]] (Most of the inhabitants of the Ancestral World)
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* [[Easter Egg]] (All over the place. The back of each issue challenged the reader to find them all)
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] (Juroot)
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything Is Worse With Bears]] (Most slaves in Enlil's Volcano were bear-men.)
* [[Everything
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]] (The Cyber Dimension in general, probably because anything that doesn't is dead already.)
* [[Exotic Weapon Supremacy]] (Kika sure likes her blowgun, doesn't she?)
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* [[Mechanical Lifeform]] (Plenty of these in the Cyber Dimension)
* [[Mismatched Eyes]] (Richard has one green eye and one grey eye. The former sees the good, the latter the evil.)
* [[Mix
* [[The Mole]] ({{spoiler|Robo}})
* [[Monster of the Week]]
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* [[Sdrawkcab Name]] (Tengam and Elitper)
* [[She's a Man In Japan]] (The Italian translation has Kika as a male.)
* [[Silicon
* [[Too Cool to Live]] ({{spoiler|Merkat}})
* [[Tree of Life]]
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