Absolutely not. Doing so would have been counter to my agenda of informing more people about this. -R
To answer, there are no new Merc AA's in this release. This not to say there won't be any, but there weren't any during the Beta and the devs never said yes.
Do you mean to unlock the zones? If so, http://everquest.fanra.info/wiki/The_Darkened_Sea#Progression