Have you looked at the statues that hold the staffs?

They seem to be Knight Templar/Crusader looking characters at first glance, but if you look closely they are the O4 except they do not look the same as origins. Richtofen and Dempsey seem to look the way they did in previous games but Nikolia and Takeo do look a little different. I know that Origins and/or the entire story line could or could not be fake I still thought it was interesting enough to point out.