Khalil Ravana recently emigrated from India to the United States and expanded his horizons from stealing wallets to stealing souls. He's sold information to the Sabbat, played hostage negotiator for a Setite neonate and became entangled in a Ravnos elder's schemes for a time.

Khalil had the luck to survive the Week of Nightmares, despite his proximity to the site of Zapathasura's destruction. He encountered the Setite elder, Hesha Ruhadze, and after a shaky introduction negotiated a deal with the Setite to smuggle him into America. In exchange for passage to the West, Khalil gave Hesha information about the Eye of Hazimel, an artifact the Setite desired.

Once in the United States, Khalil hitchhiked to New York City. Before and during the trip, he experienced and resisted telepathic compulsions from an unknown elder. Once in New York, he was guided to a young Setite - Hesha's former ghoul. Khalil held the neonate hostage to bait the Setite elder. During this time, the Ravnos met the Gangrel Ramona, who had experience with the Eye of Hazimel and had seen the curse it carried - hideous wounds and stigmata that could not be healed, even with the powers of Caine's blood. Khalil learned how to heal the wounds from the elder who had led him to New York.

Khalil traded this knowledge to Sabbat and Camarilla Kindred in New York City, as members of both sects had suffered Eye-inflicted injuries. In exchange for teaching them how to heal the wounds, the Ravnos asked for information on Hesha's location. Unfortunately, this information didn't help much. Khalil traded the location of the Eye of Hazimel to the Sabbat in exchange for potent blood. In exchange, he received information about the recently Embraced childe of the Prince of New York City.

Unfortunately for Khalil, dealing with the Sabbat is never safe. He learned that simply being of Ravnos lineage was more dangerous than ever - one of the Kindred with whom Khalil had dealt, a Ventrue traitor, discovered the Ravnos clan's current situation and decided it would be simple to dispose of Khalil Ravana. The Ventrue miscalculated and suffered the fate he'd intended for Khalil when the Ravnos consumed the Ventrue's heart's blood.

After this act, Khalil became addicted to diablerie, and his previous patience with his Setite hostage wore thin. However, he soon found his alliance with Ramona coming back to haunt him. Ramona had built up sympathy for his hostage and freed her. Worse, she had then found Hesha and led him straight to Khalil. The hapless Ravnos barely escaped the trap set for him. Now, Khalil has perhaps more enemies than anyone else in New York because he betrayed the Camarilla and the Sabbat. Worse, his addiction to diablerie led him to diablerize one of his own clan, a fool named Ghose, and turn his mortal family into ghouls. Subsequently, Khalil left New York for Chicago. He remains controlled by his addiction, haunted by the manipulations of an elder and with no real allies.