User blog comment:Ncduru/War Is Finally Here! Predictions, Theories, Rants & Raves/@comment-112.133.244.144-20151008120238/@comment-24102956-20151010080843

Game of Thrones is a series where any character, even your favorite ones, will die and there is no black and white morality unlike in FT that does the typical trope good vs evil. It disregards magic and the existence of magical creatures almost completely and focuses on human nature. GRRM is a sadistic writer who built up all your hopes and crushed it all at once.

For August being Zeref's apprentice, it would make sense since he looked like he spent decades learning so many types of Magics, modern and ancient, to become at the highest level of the Spriggan 12 as Makarov explained it to us.