I just realized that Alvar was probably how the Neverseen knew about the attack on Mt. Everest. Alvar probably heard his dad talking about it. I bet he secretly comes home and creeps around while he's invisible just to listen to stuff, an everyone assumes he's still in Ravagog.
I also feel really bad for Keefe (who doesn't) because he really looked up to Alvar and then he turned out to be a bad guy. And he looked up to Alden and then Alden went along and told Keefe to get out of the way so Ritz could have Sophie.
