An ordinary depressed serial murderer.

The true main antagonist of the Summon Up the Blood arc of Deadly Mistakes.

Backstory

The Storyteller, Elsa Strict, doesn't like to talk much about her past. She probably just doesn't want to be associated with her failures of a son and ex-husband.  She came across the Taxidermist completely by chance. It was a long time ago, before she called herself the Storyteller. She was just Elsa, with a surname that wasn't Strict. That name belonged to the Taxidermist. In any case, they met completely by chance. The Taxidermist had left his home, a rare ocurrance, and found her in the town. She had nowhere to go, and the man had money, so she talked to him a bit and followed him home.  Their relationship was strange. They both had fascinations with each other's morbid obessions, but barely cared about each other beyond the superficial. They ended up with a child, and they decided to raise him together. They were not kind or warm parents. They cared for their son even less than for each other. Both of them were too wrapped up in their own obsessions to ever pay him any mind. They barely noticed his departure once he grew up. He left the house at seventeen. 

He looks back on his upbringing with no emotion, but he does have his share of eerie memories involving creepy backwoods happenings.  Once on his own, he wandered and traveled, searching for himself. As of date, he's yet to find himself or anyone else. He did manage to follow in his parents' bloody footsteps, however.  Neither Alvan or his mother were particularly shocked or upset when his father met his grisly end. Alvan figured some weird shit would happen to him eventually. (Alvan was always suspicious of wolves. And if the Taxidermist was going to meet some weird end, it was going to involve wolves. His mother said the foreshadowing was pretty obvious.)  Currently, he lives in a quiet town where not much happens, other than the murders and other bizarre happenings in the woods. He doesn't much like company, and campers find him standoffish but mostly not much of a bother. Not like that strange deer boy....

Personality

Most people who meet Alvan find him to be an ordinary man, one that's a bit unfriendly but kind deep down, probably. Some sort of patriarch type.  He's just a bit lonely, that's all, they figure. He seems kind of sad, depressed. Just leave him alone, be nice to him and he'll be nice back eventually.  I mean, what else could possibly be going on?