I get the feeling something weird is going to happen to the RPG.
Five tomes already? We've barely even begun and now there's a boss fight! And all the characters, save for Ashen Swaardt... he's level 5, the others are all level 1...!
Hey, wait a second. Is that just an attempt to join in the fun, Shane...?
Actually, no. Ashen is an anagram of "Shane", true, but NPCs joining the party and fighting like they want to is common in RPGs, no?
I've seen it in Dragon Quest IX (where two characters fight as they like).
Also, he pretended to be a new student, but in actuality, he was training a lot to reach level 5.
He's only a temporary character.
The Tome of Psyche contain the character sheets of temporary characters... also, I thought "Psyche" would sound cool. It didn't. Oh well