User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 346: Retrogression Magic, Review and Commentary/@comment-5426822-20130802152914/@comment-5426822-20130802161638

It be interesting if he was more than a background character Mashima cooked up to fill the void Sorcerer's Weekly, could just be similar names with no connection, but I'd like to see Mashima elaborate.