chapter 8 draft, minor detail changes, codex updates

Was eager to post new chapter after several months and then found so many continuity bugs and typographical errors, sorry for the constant tiny updates! ^_^; I should try not to do public “emergency patches” so often. I might consider doing private alpha tests for future updates…

So far…

• 109,961 words (based on illume proofing calculation)
• chapter 8 might still have continuity errors (because of the amount of flag variables to check), feel free to let me know if you catch any
• tweaking minor details here and there as I learn new things from research, such as the 12 patterns for the cloth of the king/emperor, Jian bird (instead of calling it “biyi”), etc.
• added more entries to the Concepts and Factions section; added a simple Timeline section