What the hell do you mean nice clothes? It's been a THOUSAND years that should look like someone cosplaying as a historical character to you. This is a recurring problem in fantasy series like this. Why give an extremely long vigil or have a long passage of time IF NOTHING CHANGES. In a thousand years fashion should be extremely different so should weapons, magic, transportation, and literally everything. So far nothing has looked like it advanced much as compared to the thousand year old village. In just a hundred years technology has miraculously advanced and fashion has greatly changed. Even before modern society, people were making great advances in their societies and technology over the course of time how difficult would it have been for the author to do a hundred years or something closer (this really goes for all these settings; a thousand years later and everythings basically the same (if not less advanced because reasons)).
And for the love of God MAKE THESE CHAPTERS LONG. We're on freaking chapter five and (hopefully) JUST got finished with the exposition, and are STILL stuck in the forest.