

In _Fairy Tail_ , they say that Dragon Slayers are really rare, but it seems
like there's more of them than most other kinds of magic. The closest amount
of one kind of magic is maker magic; there are 5 people who are shown using it
(Lyon, Gray, Ur, Ultear, and Rufus). It's kinda the same thing with Celestial
Wizards, they say there aren't many of them but there are 4 in the show (Lucy,
Angel, Yukino, and Hisui. There's also Karen who died 3 years ago and I think
there's more in the anime during the Clock Arc, but I don't think that is in
the manga).

I kind of get why the Celestial Wizards were likely to interact because they
were needed for stuff, but if there aren't many Dragon Slayers, wouldn't it
make more sense for them to run into more of any other kind of wizard than for
7 Dragon Slayers to just happen to find each other? Other than when they run
into Leon, they never meet anyone with the same magic as anyone else in the
guild except Celestial Wizards and Dragon Slayers.


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How come there are so many Dragon Slayers?


There being so many Dragon Slayers despite it being a Lost Magic is an element
central to Fairy Tail's plot. Dragon Slayer Magic is extremely rare since the
only modern way to learn it is to embed Dragon Lacryma into the body as Laxus,
Cobra and God Serena did. Natsu, Wendy, Gajeel, Rogue and Sting are completely
different cases as they were taught by dragons themselves more than 400 years
in the past and were later send through time to year 777 as part of [The 400
Year Plan](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/The_400_Year_Plan). Back in the
past, Dragon Slaying magic was far more common.


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Fairy Tail has run into so many more people then dragon slayers and celestial
wizards, but if you were to do a scene for every single one, that would take
eons.

If you were to write a story of someone right now, would you write down every
single person they met? Of course not, you would write only the notable ones
and the ones that got them on the path they are on.

Being that path they are on is to take down Acnologia and Zeref. The arcs that
are written are the ones to that effect, discount filler ones of course.


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The reason is because the plot is surrounding dragon slayers. OFC the story is
going to introduce as many of the known ones as possible. You say why are
there so many, there arent, there are a handful, but since the story is
focused on dragon slayers, its only natural to feel like they are popping up
everywhere.

Its like if youre a doctor, at some hospital convention, lots of other people
will be there too, but ofc, youll be looking for other doctors. Ya know?


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