Whiskey/Introduction
Simple, doesn't explain enough, so question everything.
A ringtailed cat whose upbringing was within the church, but his temperament never allowed him to simply accept the answers he was given because they always felt lacking. When he was first introduced into math, he dove head first into it and never looked back. His skill prompted others in the church to push him to apply to Cliffside academy, and which he did and succeeded with, earning top honors in many of his classes.
The politics of the region he never cared for, always looking for guidance from the First Text, even as he questioned it in part.
If the truth was so obvious then there would only be one version spoken, but in his time he's learned that everyone knows it differently. Therefore.... somewhere, in all the stories, in all the tales that people know... somewhere, is the real truth.
And he's not content to sit on his tail and wait for it.