User blog comment:Yapby/All Unreleased Contents (Units, Quests, Raids)/@comment-183.131.105.173-20150530135747/@comment-25209037-20150530140841

Nope. That characters on that opening screen was an earlier art version of Vargas, Maria and Abaddon pre current Brave Frontier. Rehashed their lore, reused the art for Ark and for Maria. Supposedly.