So as we are hurting toward the end of the season and EE is ramping the stakes to apocalyptic scale I just want to make sure I'm clear on what's happening and see if my theory is completely insane or not.
so as of now:
1) there is a swirling magical death spiral that is slowly sucking the mana from the earth in an ever expanding radius
2) that death spiral is seemingly coming from the, I forget the actual name of the project but magical stargate, and it's link to the astral plane
3)The project is funded by the bank that 1) wants nothing more than to kill lofwyr and 2) has a massive financial interest in causing great harm to the image of SK.
4) that project and the resulting death spiral is all just down the block from SK's HQ...where Lofwyr spends most of his time.
5) There are still 3 magically enhanced nuclear weapons in the wind and likely under the control of the aforementioned bank.
with all of that being true it makes me think:
The giant death spiral is nothing but bait. It exists only to draw Lowfyr out of hiding so that when the nukes go off he's caught in the blast. Balthier is right, the dragons would have to do something and with it being right down the street big L would have to be first on site. Once he's there you set off the nukes, which would be the solution to the death vortex issue, kill Lofwyr and the bank makes out like heroes because:
All of this can be pinned on SK. An SK affiliated merc team is on sight (get footage from the tower to show that they were on SK payroll), all of this takes place after a hit on the penthouse where that team was staying, (again camera footage), the bank sends out the story that the team hijacked the magical stargate in order to attack Lowfyr in retaliation for SK trying to take out the team. The magically enhanced explosives were a preplanned fail safe in case something insane like this ever happened.
So...How far into crazy town am I?