Count Olaf is the villain of the Series of Unfortunate Events novels. Olaf is described as elderly and thin, with a unibrow, wheezing voice, and an eye tattoo on his left ankle. Olaf is the evil man first entrusted with the Baudelaire children after their parents' deaths. He proved to be a horrific guardian who is only interested in the fortune the Baudelaires left behind. Throughout the series, he doggedly chases the Baudelaire children with a series of heinous attempts to get his hands on the children's inheritance.