User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 435 & 436: The Cry of Victory & Memoirs, Review and Commentary/@comment-24039234-20150518203351/@comment-1776824-20150518215752

Can I point out please that before people throwing out the "copy card" that Zeref lived in Mildia? This is straight up a town known for its sorcery in Rave Master, and a prominent part of that story at one point. Mashima just remade the town and slapped it onto FT, but without all the face tattoos. He even referenced it earlier when Ultear was revealed to have been reading ancient Mildean texts to learn Last Ages.