Pools of Radiance: ECL 6 Riff Strongblade Human Warmage 6: Entry 1

Death...

Anyone who walks down The Path will know my words to be accurate.  The Sublime Way runs straight and true, with no deviations or detours.  The Way may look different for each traveler with their own obstacles and areas of danger, allies and areas of safe travel, but the destination (or at least the purpose) is the same.
My friends and I were forced from a dreadful situation and sent to a foreign land.  I understand that the cleric is somewhat familiar with this and now feels much more at home, while the rest of us feel sort of lost.  I felt horrible.  I know my destiny and the cause for each and every one of my lives, but this new world is not part of it.  Having been transported to a new world, I have been separated from The Path.  I feel my soul burning with the power of the Jade Phoenix, but how can I be a guardian when I am worlds away?  There is now un-balance.  A new mortal cannot take up the mantle of my destiny until this frame has given up the energy it contains.
I must return home somehow, that is the only way I can fix this.  I lack the power and knowledge to travel to to other worlds, or take myself home by any means.  But I know enough about the nature of my being that if I die here, my soul will return to to where I truly belong.  I only hope that through my death I can offer some sort of protection to those I leave behind.  I will go down in battle, doing my best to win and allow the others to continue on.

Life...

I awaken in a more familiar place than I have known for quite some time.  I am in the light-less tunnels of my homeland.  I can tell right away that I have returned home.  For some reason I have been made whole in the body I have known for almost two decades.  I can only assume that the need for me to continue in this life and attain the ability to unleash the power of the Mage, is great.
As I survey my surroundings, thankful to not be stuck behind enemy lines or surrounded by the walking dead, I see a familiar object lying on the ground.  As I pick it up a powerful feeling courses through my being.  I realize that a mistake was made and I was meant to return home with something, or someone...