Fairy Tail Antagonists

Balam Alliance

The Balam Alliance is made up of the three most powerful Dark Guilds: Grimiore Heart, Oracion Six, and Tartaros. Each of these guilds controls a vast number of lesser guilds, which keeps the underworld in order.

The Oracion Six is made up of only six members, but each is greatly feared. The leader, Brain, uses dark magic and he is the former teacher of Gerard. Their trump card, Midnight, is constantly sleeping on a flying carpet, and the other members warn their enemies not to wake him. Racer, known for his speed, actually uses magic to slow down time for others within a certain radius to make him seem fast, and he can also summon magical motorcycles. Angel is a celestial spirit summoner, who killed Loke’s former master and took her keys. She utilizes Gemini to copy other humans and read their minds, and she also has access to Scorpio, Aquarius’ boyfriend, and Aries, who is very close to Loke. Hoteye is a greedy man driven to find his lost brother, who uses magic from his eyes to warp the ground. Cobra carries a large snake with a very potent venom.

Gérard

Gérard is initially introduced under the alias of Siegrain, a young member of the Magic Council. His design is the same as that of Rave Master’s Sieg Hart, Hiro Mashima’s previous work, as a form of fan service. He was taken as a slave during his childhood, and along with Erza, rebelled against their captors. Their purpose was to create the “R System”, which would have been used to revive the Black Mage Zeref. Gérard was corrupted by Ultear, posing as Zeref in his mind, who promised power for reviving “him.” Together, the two work to rebuild the R System, using several other former slaves to help them. After being defeated, he regains his senses and helps Erza and Natsu escape, and he is later found by his former teacher, Brain, who revives him to find Nirvana. Gérard loses his memory, only remembering Erza’s name and the pain associated with it, and attempts to destroy Nirvana and himself to end the pain, though Erza manages to convince him to stop and keep on living. He uses “Heavenly” magic that allows him to move and fly as quickly as a meteor, and he can create vortexes.

Wanting to use Erza as the sacrifice to revive Zeref, he holds the lives of their closest friends hostage to keep her away. Most believe the story that she betrayed them, and help Gérard accomplish his goals. Shou, who is able to imprison people within playing cards, and Shimon, who uses magic to create darkness within the surrounding area, care deeply for Erza. Wally, who bases his personality off of a gunslinger featured in a film, uses magic guns and magic that transforms objects into small cubes. Miriana is an avid cat lover, who models her appearance and personality after them, and she uses a magic rope that prevents those bound by it from using magic.

Phantom Lord

Phantom Lord is a mage’s guild and a long time rival of Fairy Tail. The guild master is Jose Porla, who is jealous of Fairy Tail’s quick rise in fame and power. He uses magic to create soldiers that obey his every command. Fearing that the Fairy Tail will use Lucy Heartfilia fortune to far surpass his guild, he quickly moves to capture her and use her to obtain her father’s money. The second strongest member is Gajeel Redfox, who joins Fairy Tail after the guild is disbanded. The other strongest members are known as the “Element Four”, which is made up of Sol, who uses earth magic to control sand and rocks, Aria, the strongest member, who uses draining magic to debilitate foes, Totomaru, who can control the state and color of fire.

Trinity Raven

Trinity Raven is a trio of mage assassins hired by Gérard to guard the Tower of Paradise. Ikaruga is the leader of the group, who can cut through magic and any kind of defense with her skilled swordsmanship. Vithaldas Taka is the thrill-seeking member, who is constantly around Gérard. He uses a magical guitar to turn people into his unwilling slaves, and he can also absorb liquid with his hair. They change in appearance and personality, and they can only watch as their bodies do Taka’s bidding. Fukurou is a large man with an owl’s head. He carries around two rockets on his back that he uses for flying and seems to believe the work of an assassin is fulfilling a sense of justice. He can swallow people and digest them, which grants him their magical abilities.

Urtear

Ultear is initially a member of the Magic Council along with Siegrain, and she is a member of the Dark Guild, Grimoire Heart, under the leadership of Hades. She works under Gerard and helps him with his plan to revive Zeref. She takes up the role of the cloaked mage, “Zalty”, in order to help revive the Deliora, and she uses “lost magic”, which allows her to manipulate time on any non-organic material. She later reveals that she was the one implanting the voice of Zeref into Gerard’s mind in order to use him to overshadow the movements of the real Zeref, who is in hiding. She is the daughter of Ur, thought to be deceased, though she simply believes that her mother was foolish and weak.

Zeref

Zeref, the Black Mage, is known as the “the most atrocious mage in the history of magic” and supposedly long dead. He used “Living Magic”, with which he created a number of evil spells and demons such as Deliora, which rampaged, destroyed towns, and killed people until being sealed by Ur. Zeref is actually alive, and awaiting for the time where he can regain his strength.