Theology suggests the "work" is meant to keep individuals from their divine purpose through addiction, pride, or fear. If you'd like to explore this further, I can:
Elias began to notice that his hands were no longer his own. When he tried to draw a simple sketch for his niece—a small wooden bird—his fingers refused to move. They would only draw cold, perfect lines of steel and stone. He stopped visiting his family because their faces looked "unstructured" to him. He stopped eating food he couldn't measure, and eventually, he stopped sleeping, terrified that a dream might be asymmetrical. devils_work
The towers he built were magnificent, but they were hollow. People who lived in them reported a strange, clinical depression. The Solstice Tower, for all its beauty, was so perfectly reflective that birds dashed themselves against its windows by the thousands. Theology suggests the "work" is meant to keep