While magic is a rare occurrence in big cats, fire magic is even more rare. Mokkash was a potent fire magic user born to a low ranking warrior family. Mistreated as a cub, once his magic manifested as an older child he quickly forged his way to the top of the warrior ranks. Power hungry and caring little for those around him, he earned a reputation for cruelty.

For the pylura, Mokkash was the ultimate threat. It seemed that the enemy had somehow co-opted their patron spirit's gifts to use against them. Even groups of the most powerful magic users in pylura society could not take him down. Rather than throw valuable warriors at him to be burned to a crisp, the pylura invested time in learning how to shut his fire magic off entirely, and seal him away in a special vessel. Working in secret, this group developed a spirit imbued binding cloth that blocks a person's ability to access the spirit energy needed to do magic, and traps them in an inanimate form.

When the time finally came, Mokkash did not go down without a fight. He killed dozens before he was subdued, in a spectacular display of raw power and savagery. Once he was finally sealed away, he took the form of a small stone statue of a tiger. If the statue were to ever break, his spirit would be released onto the world as a powerful vengeful fire spirit. But the pylura didn't want to waste Mokkash's energy. Believing his spirit to essentially belong to them and their patron spirit, they used Mokkash's energy to create specialized weapons during the Dimali war.

Sometime near the end of the war, the forge that was using his statue was raided by the cat clan empire. The statue was lost in the battle, and most of those who developed the sealing cloth and techniques for harnessing the statue's powers were killed. With the real idol lost to time, replicas and fakes circulated. There are a number of individuals who believe they have the real Mokkash's idol, but are too afraid to prove it, lest his spirit be unleashed upon the world again.