>> Skuld thought of the Lenses... while she was programming reality.
>
>Well, no. She thought of them, and built the first one, when she first
>read the books that inspired them. She just dug them up again after
>the restart.

You're kind of both right, depending on your interpretation of "thought of". She'd made the first one, more or less on a whim, quite some time before the Ragnarök. She was definitely thinking about the Lens concept, and the impending need for it, while she was reprogramming the Engine, though; and so the OP's thesis is far from out of the question.

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