Makarov Dreyar

Makarov (マカロフ Makarofu) is the master of the Fairy Tail Guild, and one of the Ten Wizard Saints.

Appearance
Makarov is an unusually small character, much shorter than almost all of the other characters which is an ironic contrast to his ability to become gigantic. His eyes lack colour and he is growing bald with only the outer rims of his head containing white hair along with a thick white moustache. His member stamp is more often located in the middle of his shirt or on its collar although it is usually hidden underneath his white Russian-themed jacket.

Despite his old age he still seems to be physically strong, able to take a slash to his shoulder without concern, and definitely magically, still being considered one of the most powerful Ten Wizard Saints by those that are members or are of equal power. Regardless of this, his advanced age still requires him to take medicine.

Personality
Makarov shows extreme dislike for the Magic Council and all the rules they try to impose on guilds, believing that the skills and magic of his guild members will not be able to grow if he makes them conform to the rules of the Council. He frequently attempts to balance reprimands from the council and the eccentricity of his guild. Despite this he at times has to grow in his giant form to stop the insane revelling and destruction of the guild, and acts as a parent to the guild members looking after them and encouraging or inspiring them. This parent attribute is noticeable when he worries over the destruction that the guild members may cause and tells them to try tone it down. This trait is especially obvious in the Phantom Lord arc when he is disinterested in revenge for the damage caused to the guild but grows enraged and vengeful when he finds three of his "children" have been hurt.

He also his own eccentric side, wearing an unusual hat or doing inane poses. Another trait is his docile perverted nature, an example being when he hit Natsu Dragneel, Happy and Gray Fullbuster on the head for doing an S-class mission without permission but spanked Lucy Heartfilia, and spanked her again even though he was telling off Natsu.

Laxus
Makarov worries greatly about Laxus' attitude towards things, especially his notion to wipe out the weak and keep the strong within the guild. When younger Laxus was a more kind and energetic child where the relationship between the two was much better. However, into his teenage years Laxus' personality became more warped and Makarov is at a loss to why. Even so Makarov cares for him regardless of the fact that he had to excommunicate him after the events of the Fighting Festival arc as he did so tearfully.

Ivan
He and his son, Ivan, may have fallen out in the past due to Ivan's darker and more sinister personality or motives. He excommunicated him in the past and evidently tried to keep tabs on him when he sent Gajeel to try find him. His inclination to not let Ivan do as he wishes implies that Makarov treats him more as an enemy than a son.

Guild
Makarov holds a parental like relationship over the other members of the guild. He appears to hold little qualms over the age, strength or history of a joining member as seen when he lets Gajeel Redfox and Juvia Loxar join despite them being members of the guild they had in a previous arc gone to war against. Once a member has joined he treats them as children: keeping them from harm; encouraging, supporting and explaining things to them as well as exacting revenge upon those who dare to hurt them.

History
Makarov opened up the guild around 8-10 years before the current storyline where it quickly grew with fame of its mages and their power. He named it 'Fairy Tail' as the eternal mystery behind where fairies had tails or not, or if they even existed, was like an eternal adventure. Some time during those years Makarov expelled his son, Ivan, for unknown reasons despite the sensitive information he carried about the guild.

In the past, Makarov and the guild may been in a guild war or perhaps experienced one. He met Jose Porla six years in the past at the regular meeting where they may have fought.

He has been friends with Porlyusica for a considerable amount of years as she mentions that he has caused so much trouble since the "old days".

Macao arc
Makarov is first introduced dispelling a huge brawl between the guild's members started by Natsu when he and Happy lead Lucy to Fairy Tail. After doing so, he reads them the reports of the large scale destruction they have committed, and informs of the fury of the Council members at this, but tells them to just ignore the council members and "do whatever you think right". When Romeo, the son of the Fairy Tail member, comes looking for his missing father, Macao Conbolt and shouts at Makarov that he should be looking for his father, Makarov dismisses him, saying Macau can look after himself; angered, Romeo punches him in the face and runs off.

Daybreak arc
When the Fairy Tail guild member Levy McGarden laments about not being to take the Everlue Mansion mission, Makarov comments that it's probably for the best and reveals that the mission's reward has increased ten times to 2,000,000 jewels.

Lullaby arc
While at the Regular Meeting for Provincial Guild Masters, Makarov gets a message from Mirajane informing him of the new team formed by Natsu and Erza Scarlet. He begins to sweat profusely as the potential destruction this team could havoc could possibly destroy an entire town. Later, Kageyama of the Eisenwald Guild manages to reach the meeting site and bumps into Makarov. Kageyama asks him if he could listen to a song from the lethal lullaby flute, and Makarov agrees. But, Kageyama can't bring himself to do it and Makarov dissuades him with a pep talk about nakama while Natsu and co, with two other guild leaders, watch. Then, to their surprise, the lullaby begins talking and a Living Magic belonging to Zeref manifests and attacks them. Natsu, Erza and Gray rise up to the challenge, and quickly defeat it, but their wanton destruction results in the meeting site building being destroyed and the Fairy Tail members having to make a quick getaway.

Garuna Island arc
After Erza is arrested, Makarov waits patiently with the rest of the guild members for her return. Natsu is apparently trapped under a glass, transformed into a salamander, but Makarov reveals to everyone's surprise that it is actually Macao, not Natsu. With Natsu and Erza released from jail, Makarov is seen sitting on his usual spot on top of the bar's counter when he starts to feel sleepy, hailing the arrival of the reclusive Mystogan. Makarov is the only able to resist Mystogan's sleep magic. He then stops Natsu trying to run up to the second floor to fight Laxus Dreyar and tells the two to quieten down. The following day, Makarov hears the shocking news that one of the S-class missions is missing, and that Natsu and Happy are the culprits. He shouts at Laxus to bring them back but he refuses. Instead it falls on Gray to bring them back.

Phantom Lord arc
When Team Natsu returns to find the guild attacked, they find that their master is seemingly indifferent to the destruction. He firstly gives all but Erza a hit to the head, except Lucy who gets smacked on the butt, and tells them not to worry about the Phantom Lord Guild's attack since "there's no need to get cross with someone who resorts to surprise attacks." When Makarov runs off for a "leak", Mirajane tells them that Makarov is as shocked as them but warfare between guilds is illegal and it would be unwise to retaliate. However, after seeing Jet, Droy and Levy severely injured he grows enraged and declares war on Phantom Lord. Travelling through the night, he along with other Fairy Tail members, arrive at Phantom Lord's guild in the Town of Oak and storm in, with Makarov easily defeating many of them. He then quickly rushes to find Jose Porla, the Phantom Lord's master, on the top floor with his fury turning into magical power and causing the building to tremble. However, he had been led into a trap by Jose as Aria, one of the Elemental 4, suddenly appears and attacks him with a magic that drains his magical power. Due to the massive loss of strength and morale the other Fairy Tail members receive from the loss of Makarov they are forced to retreat. When they return, he is taken to a friend of his and a healing mage, Porlyusica who looks after him. It is discovered that the magic, Drain, that was used on him causes the user's magical power to disperse into the air and eventually disappear. Just after Makarov leaves her home, she finds that it was Mystogan who helped regather Makarov's magical power.

During the battle with Phantom Lord, Makarov appears near the end of the battle just in the nick of time to save Erza who had been fighting Jose. They begin to fight, Makarov striking first with Jose quickly firing back, and are initially equally matched. Makarov then warns him to surrender, but Jose barks in refusal so Makarov activates the extremely powerful Fairy Law which easily defeats Jose and all of his shades. He tells him to go back and take care of themselves from the reaction of the council. Just as he leaves, Aria suddenly attacks him again; this time Makarov simply defeats him with a punch, warning him that he'll exterminate them if they continue.

The Fairy Tail members return to their trashed guild where Makarov gives Lucy a speech on the bonds of guild members, causing her to cry, although he begins to cry as well when he thinks he may be arrested by the council. Although not arrested, at the hearing he falls asleep during it, only being awoken one of the helper frogs says his name. Luckily, the guild is found not guilty thanks to the aid given by one of the Council members, Shitou Yajim], who seems to be a friend of Makarov's. Shitou tells him to retire but when Makarov muses over it back at the guild's building site he can think of no suitable master and finds he especially can't retire after hearing that Team Natsu destroyed a stretch of road during their job.

Fighting Festival arc
Makarov introduces the new rebuilt guild to Team Natsu and two new S-Class members: Juvia Loxar and Gajeel Redfox. Though they dislike the idea of Gajeel joining, he states that Gajeel was only acting on Jose's orders after all.

At the start of the Harvest festival, Makarov attends and watches the Miss Fairy Tail contest, occasionally getting a nosebleed. With the arrival of Laxus and the Raijinshuu, he stands helpless as the contestants are turned to stone by Evergreen, effectively made hostages, and he is trapped with Fried Justine's enchantment that states those above the age of 80, and stone statues, may not pass. Due to Laxus' strength, he worries if anyone can actually defeat him with Erza out of the picture and he initially thinks Natsu could also help but finds that he's mysteriously trapped within the enchantment as well. Trembling with anger, he watches the battle progress reports until Laxus appears and tells him to resign the position of Master to himself before the 3 hours are up in which the statues will turn to dust. When only two remain, Natsu and Gajeel, he tries to prevent Natsu from 'reviving' Erza but finds that the stone around her breaks due to his antics and figures that since half of the magic was taken through her artificial eye the effect was also halved. Now with Erza and the arrival of Mystogan, Makarov orders a counter-attack. When Evergreen is defeated, and the contestants released, Laxus reappears and instates a new rule: The Hall of Thunder, which, effectively, takes the whole town hostage. Makarov shouts out on rage but just as he does, he gets a sharp pain in his chest and falls to the ground, having to be taken to a bed to rest. It is later found out, from Porlyusica, that Laxus is inadvertently killing Makarov.

After Laxus is finally defeated and with the aid of Porlyusica, Makarov recovers. Laxus visits him in the medical ward and during an emotional speech is forced to tearfully excommunicate him from the guild. The following night, he takes part in the Fantasia festival and does a sign that Laxus did when he was younger to show that he'll always be watching. Afterwards it's revealed that Makarov had given Gajeel a mission to work as a double agent to find the location of his son, Ivan, in which he completed.

Oración Seis arc
A few days after Laxus' excommunication, Makarov tried to take responsibility for Laxus actions and resign his position but he was eventually stopped with a few words from Fried.

Later on, Makarov goes to regular meeting and reports back to the guild to tell them that an alliance of four legal guilds, including their own, are going to take down one of the most powerful Dark guilds, the Oración Seis. For unknown reasons, but mostly likely due to their strength, he chose Team Natsu to represent Fairy Tail in the alliance.

Magic and Abilities
Being the Master of the Fairy Tail guild and a member of one of the Ten Wizard Saints, Makarov is an extremely powerful individual. His power is so great that Angel, one of the Oración Seis able to take a guild by themselves, would have been troubled if another wizard saint, Jura Nekis, was of the same power. Another example would be that just his magical presence, when enraged, was enough to cause objects around him to be destroyed, an attribute yet unseen with any other character.

He has a vast knowledge of magic, knowing such things as the Moon Drip, and is able to sense magical presences very well knowing, for example, that Natsu who had presumably been transformed into a lizard was actually Macao when all the other members had been duped.

Titan: Makarov's main form of magic. It allows him to literally grow to gigantic sizes whether it would be his whole body or just a limb. It also allows him to stretch limbs but still retain the same amount of strength.

Makarov also has various other unnamed magics, such as an lightning attack and a powerful shockwave-like attack. He also knows fire magic as seen in chapter 2.

List of spells:


 * Fairy Law: One of the strongest spells seen in the series (if not the strongest), it is considered a super-magic or one of the legendary spells. When activated, a bright light hits a targeted spot or an area and inflicts very heavy damage on whoever the caster perceives from their heart as an enemy, not harming friends or bystanders. The strength of the spell was such that it defeated Jose, a fellow Ten Wizard Saint, in a single blow.

Trivia

 * Hiro Mashima gave him the name 'Makarov' because he wanted his name to sound Russian.
 * His surname may be Dreyar like his grandson.
 * Makarov makes a cameo appearance in the game Sunday VS Magazine: Shuuketsu! Choujou Daikessen!, along with Erza, Gray, and Happy.