You seek to become an eternal being, using your mastery over rituals to accomplish this. For your search to the ritual to accomplish this, you will travel and adventure to gain the power necessary to do this.
Just so all of you know, I like fourth edition, I just considered it to be important to look at the system’s flaws, especially from a proponent’s point of view.
The Adventurer’s Vault, the fourth edition equivalent of the Magic Item compendium. This will review will cover the general idea of the book and several items on their own.
My (and my friend's) progress at NaNoWriMo