User blog comment:EvanDude345rv5/Fairy Tail 353 : Nine Ghost Gate/@comment-3424593-20130928223035/@comment-5580383-20130929040946

The Baram Alliance all have connections to each other and each of them  affected by Zeref one way or another. The Oracion Seis were all former slaves of the Tower of Heaven led by a Zeref cultist who trained a Brainwashed Jellal into a S Class level fighter. They might have different goals but all are linked to Zeref and dark magic.