Evan is not one of the Five Heroes !?

They can't simply reuse the "frozen in ice" gimmick for every one of the heroes. I think it works our rather nicely that they give each of the heroes their own way of coming back into the Maple world.

I agree with this. It would be incredibly stupid to have all of them be sealed away since the past like being "frozen in the ice" and be magically discovered: I'm glad this class, Hero or not related to the original five heroes, didn't use that plot idea. You know, I wonder if the farmer character is the reincarnation or some sort of descendant of the dragon's former partner during the time when the Black Magician ruled over most of the Maple World, meaning that the character had a Hero bloodline; or that the dragon was looking for a new partner to prepare before the Black Magician arrived in the Maple World again due to the death of a former Hero partner in the past, making this farm boy into a Hero. Those would both work nicely as to bringing this class back to the Maple world.

There's just one thing I'm not sure of: if the Arans with the other Heroes were so close to defeating the Black Magician and the Arans were frozen away, what stopped the other Heroes from killing or totally defeating the Black Magician?