No, Makarov is our guild master and like a substitute father to most of us at Fairy Tail.
Yes, yesterday he spoke about how his mother would blame this whole thing on him. I think he had just arrived.
[Filtered to Draco] I retired because I couldn't. Things happened and I couldn't get past it, I just wanted a happy and peaceful life. I wasn't strong enough back then and I'm not strong enough now either.