it must be possible to create variant relationships not only between BPMN&BPMN or EPC&EPC but for several reasons also BPMN&EPC should be named variants.
UseCases:
There is a new online shop and the process variants for the shop I will define as BPMN for easy automation so I need a BPMN variant from my EPC...
Mining a EPC model and creating variants out of APM (Mining to model) then only BPMN will be created but the new process model is reflecting a variant of the model in ARIS - so a relationship should be creatable.
I think many other reason can be imagined...