"Aurvandil has taken control of Tower Fatmilak. The region used to belong to Madina."
I was really surprised to see this. Madina dropped the ball when they moved the capitol to the Tower. They could have learned a few lessons from the battles of Valkyrja and Storms Keep. HUGE walls are tough to break. A month of throwing all the gold you had into the walls of the Tower would have made it nearly impossible to storm. How big were the walls on the Tower?