I doubt it. If Acnologia does appear everywhere where Zeref has made his presence known, we might've seen conflict between Alvarez and Acnologia already. I mean, Acnologia really is being made out to be an extremely strong being. For a strong mage like Zeref to have to create a massive army to take him on, Acnologia must be seen as an incredibly huge threat in Zeref's eyes, which is a real credit to Acnologia. Hiro really is beefing up his reputation as the strongest enemy.
I thought the dragon was acknologia, humans were the mages who are going to fight and the dark mage was zeref. Nothing about the springan seems to make them dark mages so far... I guess they could be evil but so far they seem to be at best misguided zeref fanatics.
The issue here is the contradiction that is zeref. If he values life then he devours it unwillingly. And in that stage he presumably wants to die but can't or won't go that way because he also values his own life. If he does not value life then he genuinely wants to destroy everything.
That would explain why he left Natsu in Igneel's care tbh. He's using Natsu as a weapon against Acnologia, and the Alvarez Empire is basically a means of provoking Natsu into being angry enough so that he'll go all out. He probably figures if Natsu is powerful enough to kill himself, Natsu is powerful enough to Acnologia.
That could be the case, and that would explain alot about zeref's and aconolgia's relationship as he did say zeref helped him in turning into a dragon. But now that its been revealed that they have some sort of rivalry, i think acnologia has a bigger back story than we previously thought. Hiro might end up turning acnologia into some weirdly enough sympathetic character.
Was it that guy that use to be apart of the council but then left and was an announcer in gmg?
If zeref didnt know acnologia in his human form wouldn't that contradict what was said in fairy tail about zeref having something to do with his transformation.
No because Arcadios said it. And if you read chapter 436, you'd know he doesn't know about his human form, he knows about him as the Black Dragon of Apocalypse. Most people (from the FT verse), don't know exactly what happened 400 years ago, Arcadios said that Zeref helped Acnologi turn into a dragon, while the dragons said he bathed in too much dragon blood & used to much dragon slaying magic, so that's why turned into.
Ahhh yes, that is true, although i want to know zeref and acnologia's relationship after they got "acquintated" and why zeref wants to compete with acnologia( not just because he may be stronger) but i have reason to believe acnologia and zeref got acquintated because of e.n.d
The Dragon King Festival was a 'war' between Dragon, Humans & Demons. Personally I think, as Zeref said he found the place he was looking to die, and it's called the Dragon King Festival in Ishgar. Now what I'm about to say it's a theory sorta... Zeref possibly tried to die 400 years ago, but couldn't because of something or someone interfering with his 'plan', most likely Igneel did something to E.N.D in the past, as Atlas Flame says, Igneel wasn't able to defeat E.N.D. Now E.N.D is sealed in a book, most popular theory is that Natsu is the perfect vessel to those 'demonic' powers, we will go with that. Acnologia, whose motive are still unknown, why he joined the dragons, than decided to kill them slaying almost every dragon (there might be some left, or in this 400 years gap Acnologia found every dragon and slay it...). There's something that Igneel did that made Zeref seal E.N.D (assuming he sealed him, and not someone/something else). This are stuff that connect the overall story, and Mashima can pull it off. It all boils down to what happened 400 years ago.