User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 514: Dragon Seed, Review/@comment-7418318-20161212113658/@comment-7418318-20161212115608

Not really. This chapter makes it clear that at least some of the Dragons have been living with Humans for a long time (by Human standards anyway). Zirconis told his story as if ALL Dragons considered Humans to be nothing but food until that one Dragon changed his mind and convinced others to join.

And he very unmistakably said that it was the pro-Human Dragons that were the spark. He never even hinted at any foreign Dragons being involved, much less being the spark that ignited a philosophical debate into an all-out civil war.

The only way to explain the inconsistencies... or rather the outright contradictions away is to say it was due to Zirconis memories being so badly damaged from his soul being dormant for so long and on the verge of disappearing, but that's a rather lame excuse for such a massive shift if you ask me.

It'd have been better to say that the first Dragon Civil war happened 500 or 600 years ago and Zirconis just got the two wars mixed together in his deteriorating memory. Just a little comment by Belserion saying something like "We have proofen we can coexist. Since the war X centuries ago, we've been living peacefully without incident." would have sufficed. Just one line in one panel.

I'll just use that as my own head-canon to make sense of it I guess. ^^