Guild Wars 2

Killyox.3950:

_"Revenants are heroes who’ve learned to commune with the Mists, a magical protoreality that makes up the fabric of space and time within the Guild Wars 2 universe. The Mists remember what came before, and echoes of those who left an especially powerful imprint on the world of Tyria can still be found there. A revenant calls upon these legendary historical figures, bringing them back into action to enhance the revenant’s own abilities and power."

They don’t need to be dead. They have to be figures who left a powerful imprint in the mists and you can do that while alive :P.

That excerpt doesn’t even support your theory? The sentence immediately following the bold text specifically references “historical figures” and “bringing them back into action”, and later in the same blog post the revenant is characterized “as nearly the opposite of the engineer profession; while engineers look to the future to create new technology, revenants turn to the past to reclaim ancient powers.”

Killyox.3950:

It’s not that you siphon directly power from said beings but rather you take power from the Mists which containt imprint (blueprint/copy) of said beings power.

Again, this doesn’t seem to be the case:

“A revenant’s legends are not merely echoes of the past but are fully sentient, with opinions and personalities of their own. What this means for the relationship between revenant and legend varies between individuals, as some legends are considerably more thrilled about being channeled than others.” Revenants don’t seem to simply commune with the Mists, then, but specifically channel certain beings within it.

Your pet theory that you can channel the living might be true, but I don’t think any known material supports it.

I’d like to see Master Togo, for the sole purpose of having a Ritualist elite spec. Seriously, I want Ritualist back!