Hm, well more considering on my part and I'm getting somewhere. I suppose he would be a wizard, who attended some school of the sort for 4 years starting at age 16 and subsequently, rather than proceeding on to greater and better things as he hoped ended up stuck in some mundane and mind numbing if stable paper pusher job for the government which he has worked at for the last 3 years. Perhaps he has now been assigned by his xenophobic employers to keep an eye in a minder sort of role to keep an eye on those odd new and clearly wicked folk, especially that cat person. And thus the horror begins...
And I'm curious as to how the mana system works. Certainly, it would be nice to have some flexibility in choosing what spells I cast rather than having to be bound by whatever I have memorized.