Skraal was not that smart when it comes to these things. In a sense that Skraal knew that having a smart ass mind without making any mistakes and many other things such as creating some sort of event without any kind of understanding of others. One would not make mistake and understanding of the events.
Skraal was able to understand that these things without any problem because of his experience with origin power as well as he is one of the beings that does not gathered and reached the origin power via outside forces. He have origin powers because of his own powers
The fact that he himself have gathered the power of Origin without the help of anyone made him make the changes with many kind of understandng and the materialistic changes of the events and at the same time the changes of tne events in the creation of the origin power and pure origin from the start.