User blog comment:LegerPrime/Acnologia's Mother/@comment-86.66.207.1-20160103101142/@comment-7418318-20160103101918

What of it? He was working for a trade guild, so trading with other countries or even continents might very well have been his very job.

And from Zeref and Brandish we already know that Layla, who also worked for Love & Lucky, had a connection with Alvarez of some kind.

But on the other hand I wouldn't interprete too much into those pictures. Just because the person Jude talked to and the Alvarez soldier both wear a beard and a turban doesn't mean they come from the same place.