Could use some advice from people who've had Thror empowerment characters. The whole idea of asking for a god's power so you have new abilities and skills seems to go against the grain of the religion, from what I've heard of it.

How did you all get around this? Maybe it's a problem with my imagination, but I've always played my empowerment chars as asking the god for some juice to go out and do the god's work, or the character's work, or whatever. Do Thror empowerees act like the power for, say, sanctuary, is all coming from them? If not, how do they mesh the fact that a great portion of their strength comes from a god, with the "by your own bootstraps" religion?