Draven was Mikhail's older brother. It was revealed that he and his sister, Noelle, shared the same strange illness where a Carpathian wants someone who isn't their true lifemate. He coveted Ivory Malinov because "he is royalty and deserves any woman he wanted," and he wanted only Ivory for her beauty. She denied his advances, so he killed Rhiannon's lifemate for Xavier so that the mage would hand over Ivory. When she still refused him, he cut her body into several pieces and left her for the wolves to eat.
In the Land of Mist, he worked with many vampires, including Maxim Malinov, to use MaryAnn Delaney to return to the Land of the Living. When her lifemate, Manolito, made Maxim face memories of Ivory, presumed dead at the time, Maxim began to repent for his sins, robbing Draven of the one performing the spell to take them out of the other world. Draven's parents, Vladimer and Sarantha, sent him to be judged for his crimes, something they regretted not doing while alive and preventing the possible extinction of the Carpathian species.
Under Mikhail's command, Gregori was the one to hunt and dispense justice to Draven.
In the web series, Before the Dark, the bonus episode, A Fate Sealed in Blood, revealed that Yana the Empath was his lifemate even though she was human. If he had been allowed to claim her, Draven would have been the first Carpathian to be mated with a human.