Ivan Dreyar

Iwan Dreyar (イワン・ドレアー Iwan Doreā) is the father of Laxus Dreyar and the son of Makarov. He is a former Mage of the Fairy Tail Guild, and is currently the master of the guild he founded, Raven Tail. During the Grand Magic Games, Iwan takes the alias of Alexei.

Appearance
Though being the son of Makarov and the father of Laxus, Iwan holds no resemblance to either of them. Iwan is rather tall and has a more muscular body. He also has black hair and tanned skin. Iwan sports a unique looking beard. He wears an ornate cloak along with a dress shirt and an ascot tied in a full Windsor knot. Seven years later, his apperance is virtulaly the same as before except he's now bald on the top of his head.

As "Alexei", he resembles a medieval Knight, with a mask instead of a helmet. His tall body is completely covered by a armor (except for his big orange hair) with a long cape behind.

He keeps his face hidden behind a golden mask. It's slightly triangular, with a square part in the chin's region and two pointed parts in the sides, in the region of the ears. As characteristic feature, the mask has a trident-like plate in the forehead's region, forming a "W" pattern. It also has two opens next to the plate that allows Iwan to see, as well two white strips in each side of the mask

The rest of the armor is composed by a metallic pectoral, separated to the waist's cingulum by a piece of dark cloth. The cingulum also has two pointed plates in each side of Iwan's body. For the legs, that are also separated from the cingulum by cloth, Iwan uses the traditional cuisse, with round poleyns and stylized greaves. Iwan's arms are also covered by the dark cloth, and end into metallic bracelets attached to gauntlets, that have sharp pointed fingers.

Iwan's dark cape is attached to its side in the region of his neck, apparently by a circular fivel. The cape resembles Laxus' initial tunic, with a blue dense fur delimiting it.

Personality
Iwan shows many signs of insanity during his brief appearance. He seems obsessed with the Fairy Tail guild, enough to give his own guild a similar name. He also seems to enjoy killing things as he turns ravens into shikigami and then bites their heads off. Iwan also addresses everyone with a -chan suffix, as he calls Gajeel "Gajeel-chan" and Laxus "Laxus-chan", and even speaks about "money-chan". Iwan cares little for the well being of his family, be it his father or son. He even referred to Laxus as money; stating that he wanted the dragon lacrima, that was inserted into Laxus, back, despite knowing that it could kill his son.

As "Alexei", Iwan showed to be very cruel person. When entering the Domus Flau, he saw Team Fairy Tail A angry because of what Obra did with Wendy Marvell, but despite that, he stated that what they did was just "A way to say welcome", showing that Raven Tail won't play a fair game. This was later confirmed during Lucy's fight against Flare Corona, when Obra, likely under Iwan's orders, erased Lucy's Magic Power to make Flare win. He doesn't have any respect even towards his Guildmates, and seems to follow a perspective that only the strong deserve respect, as he beat Flare for almost losing in her battle, leaving her harsh wounds, and even humiliating and threatening her after that.

As Guild Master, Iwan is respected by other Raven Tail members, due to his spirit of leadership. He seems to be the one who chooses which members will participate in the events, and thus they obey. Nullpuding even refers to him as "Alexei-sama", despite that name being false, indicating a great respect.

History
During Laxus' childhood, Iwan had implanted a Dragon Lacrima within the former, not to strengthen his son's weak body, but so as to harness the Lacrima when Laxus grows older, knowing such will be worth a lot. Laxus remembers Iwan had once been a member of the Fairy Tail Guild, but had been banished. Laxus had been very distraught upon his father's excommunication.

Fighting Festival arc
Iwan contacts Gajeel Redfox through a shikigami, as Gajeel and Natsu are searching for Laxus. Iwan commands Gajeel to be patient in his quest for revenge against Natsu Dragneel, asking Gajeel to wait until Laxus is defeated. Later, at his guild, he explains to Gajeel that Laxus is a fake Dragon Slayer; when Laxus was a boy, Iwan had transplanted dragon Magic lacrima into his son's body, out of pity for Laxus' weak nature, so that Iwan could harvest the expensive lacrima when Laxus is older. He also praises Gajeel for spying on Fairy Tail for himself, not knowing that Gajeel is truly a double agent for Fairy Tail and is spying on Raven Tail.

Grand Magic Games arc
Iwan evilly chuckles as he announces that it was time for Raven Tail to utterly destroy Fairy Tail in the Grand Magic Games, with his guild's Mages accompanying him.

Iwan watches from the crowd when Team Raven Tail, is declared as the third team that was able to pass the preliminaries to get to the main event of the Grand Magic Games. He states that he has waited seven years for the time that he could face his father. As Fairy Tail's second team is revealed to have made it to the main event ranking higher than the main group, with both Gajeel and his son Laxus being part of it, Iwan mutters the former's name to himself, with a pleased, surprised look on his face.

Under the "Alexei" alias, he and his team successfully ranked third during the preliminary contest, Sky Labyrinth. When the team enters the Games' field, they meet the Fairy Tail members, and he states that Wendy was "a way to say hello", referring to what Obra did to her.

"Alexei" then moves to the spectators' place to administer his team. He chooses Nullpuding to compete in the first event and apparently orders Obra to erase Lucy's Magic Power during her fight against Flare Corona.

On the second day, Flare is seen badly wounded, due to her punishment by "Alexei" for her "pathetic scene" in the first day. Flare keeps her obsession for Lucy, but "Alexei" threatens her to stop.

On the third day, "Alexei" orders Obra to compete in the Pandemonium event, but advises him to not show his true power because of the presence of an official from the Magic Council. Thus, during the Magic Power Finder part of the event, "Alexei" tells Flare to be quiet about Obra's seemingly weak display of power. At the end of the event, Nullpuding hands him the list of Mages that will battle on that day. He states that the administration of the Games is being very creative and tells his Guildmates that they should start with their real objective.

During "Alexei's" matchup against Laxus, it was revealed superficially that the former had superior speed and strength against the latter, and that "Alexei" was one-sidedly pinning down Laxus with the latter not being able to retaliate. However, it was shown later that this was just an illusionary projection of "Alexei's" power, whereby Laxus and "Alexei", and the other 4 members of Raven Tail, were all shown having a conversation with each other in the background, where they could not be seen or heard by the audience. Laxus began to question "Alexei's" motives, and in a ironic twist, "Alexei" removed his mask and revealed himself to the real Iwar Dreyar, the master of Raven Tail. Iwar requested for the secret of Lumen Histoire from Laxus, in which the latter declined to know, in exchange for manipulating the illusions into making Laxus win the match. Laxus refused the offer, and challenged Raven Tail to a battle. Iwar retorted that it would not be so easy, since they were a specialized anti-Fairy Tail guild.

Magic and Abilities
Shikigami Magic: Iwan's only known Magical ability up to date is his ability to transform objects into shikigami (paper dolls). The extent of his abilities is unknown, but he is able to transform living objects into shikigami, as seen when he turned a raven into a paper doll. These shikigami can then be used for communication over great distances.

Illusions: During the third day of the Grand Magic Games, Iwan reveals he can use superior illusions able to deceive even respectable mages such as Wizard Saints and Magic Council. He was able to trick the whole audience of the Grand Magic Games into seeing a false fight between him and Laxus, as well as hide him and other Raven Tail mages. According, other people cannot see nor hear them.

Appearances in Other Media
Iwan appears in Fairy Tail: Zeref's Awakening as the main antagonist of the game's original arc. Due to wearing a mask and completely different clothing, it was unknown who he was until the end of the arc.

Trivia

 * For unknown reasons, it appears Gildarts Clive has a strong dislike or grudge against Iwan.