Re: Fairy Tail Zero & Ice Trail
Is FT Ice Trail even canon? I mean if Gildarts is the strongest of the west then he at least is stronger than one of the 4 gods of Ishvall. I assumed that the 4 gods of Ishvall are the strongest waizards from all four directions (north,west,east,south). Shouldn't the founding member of FT be considered the strongest of the west instead of Gildarts? Or Hades?
Dark guild members aren't counted; you have to be in good standing to become one of the wizard saints with the top 4 being the gods of ishval. That's why Hades wouldn't be included. Laxus was immediately refused a wizard saint position after he publically beat jura, as revealed in one of the character introduction pages recently, because of his relation with fairy tail. Same goes for the dark guild leader from ice trail, for that matter, and as we saw he was clearly bluffing.
As for the regions, it could simply be that two ro more live in a single region, say two live in the north, and one in the other 2 regions, with gildarts in the other.
Also, Gildrats is probably the strongest Mage in a Mage guild. Because even though he's called the "Strongest In Fairy Tail", he's still inferior to Makarov.
Debatable and probably not the place for it, but there was a reason Makarov wanted Gildarts to take his place as leader, likely Makarov releasing he wasn't strong enough after being beaten so badly by hades , where Gildarts (and Laxus, who wasn't a guild member at the time) were doing jsut as well as him, if not better. Laxus will presumably get promoted to guild leader when Makarov finally retires, btu that'll likely be at the end of the series.