User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 455: Magnolia's Defensive Battle, Review./@comment-118.137.238.59-20151005062507/@comment-9595671-20151005111902

Yeah, I kinda get the feeling Layla is somewhat like Fairy Tail's equivalent to Resha Valentine. Only instead of Elie and Resha being the same, the role of Elie belongs to her daughter Lucy instead.

Whatever happened on the year she died has a lot of importance, and yet even still we don't know what it was. Even why the Dragons also left around that same time. (Unless that's when Acnologia ate their souls)