Random thoughts:

Many of these look like Stunts. Basic Archery, Woodtracking, Calm Beasts, and Earthsense could all be mortal stunts.

True. I can see non earth-crafters being able to do some of these. That doesn't mean these can't also be powers, though.

Earthsense boosts Survival, but I don't think that Survival is actually used to locate nearby beings.

Woops, that was always supposed to be Alertness.

Not sure that Recovery is appropriate for waterbenders. I don't ever recall any of them shrugging off massive wounds quickly.

I don't like the way that people who have better Endurance are harder to heal.

Agreed! Recovery removed, and the base check has been standardized.

Healing seems kind of easy.

Weeeel, yes and no. It's still based on a Scholarship check to reflect the healer's medical background, and the higher level versions will be about useless without aspects and stunts to up that skill. Yes, you can take more time, but if there's three people with life-threatening injuries, taking that much time for one means the other two die.

What happens if you over-succeed at healing?

You're done quicker.

I don't really like the way that Read Emotion scales with Refresh invested in watercrafting.

Stronger watercrafters are more sensitive. I'll explain below why I'm not too worried about this and other water-based powers.

Can watercrafters use Mimic Form on other people?

Absolutely not, or else all that stuff with Max in Cursor's Fury wouldn't have been as important, and all major political figures would have one or two doubles around for this purpose.

The "must touch earth" and "disrupted by salt" things are probably best handled with compels.

I completely disagree. Must touch earth is a must, plan and simple. You can't buy off a compel to gain strength from the earth when you're say, on a wind-coach five-hundred feet off the ground. And a flying windcrafter hit with salt falls, period.

Upper-level Archery worries me. Stacking stress boosters that high isn't normally supposed to be easy.

Agreed somewhat. I've adjusted this a bit, but they're still a little broken, which to me fits with the setting. Enhanced archers are not that uncommon in Alera; just about any Aleran can (and probably should) be broken when compared to a "vanilla" mortal in Dresden. This offsets the fact that Alerans don't have computers, automatic rifles, or Youtube.

Some sort of area-effect upgrade for Incite Emotion for fire might be good.

Ignored, explanation below.

Inner Comfort doesn't look worth Refresh to me.

Adjusted somewhat.

Might be safer to put a limit on the supplemental movement from Speed.

There is a limit, its only so many times per scene.

Why does Iron Spine refer to social conflicts?

I've adjusted that in the endurance power set to be mental or social, this covers wehn someone would draw upon steel to remain calm or to counter emotional sensitivity from advanced watercrafting.

A bound fury could just be Sponsor Debt.

Agreed.

Metalcrafting

Basic Offense [-1]
Description: You can use metal craft to feel the stresses and limits to your metal weapons, and you can sense the movement and weaknesses of your opponent’s metal armor.
Skills Affected: Weaponry
Effect. When successfully attacking with a metal weapon, increase the stress dealt by one on a successful hit.
Effect: Ignore 1 point of armor for an opponent’s metal armor or shield.

Advanced Offense [-2]
Description: You can use metal craft to feel the stresses and limits to your metal weapons, and you can sense the movement and weaknesses of your opponent’s metal armor.
Skills Affected: Weaponry
Effect. When successfully attacking with a metal weapon, increase the stress dealt by two on a successful hit.
Effect: Ignore 2 points of an opponent’s metal armor or shield.

Expert Offense [-3]
Description: You can use metal craft to feel the stresses and limits to your metal weapons, and you can sense the movement and weaknesses of your opponent’s metal armor.
Skills Affected: Weaponry
Effect. When successfully attacking with a metal weapon, increase the stress dealt by three on a successful hit.
Effect: Ignore 3 points of an opponent’s metal armor or shield.

Basic Defense [-1]
Description: You can sense your opponents blade, and can temporarily harden your armor to lessen impacts.
Skills Affected: Weaponry, Athletics
Effect. You gain a +1 to dodge attempts made to avoid damage from metal weapons.
Effect. The armor bonus for metal armor is increased by one.

Advanced Defense [-2]
Description: You can sense your opponents blade, and can temporarily harden your armor to lessen impacts.
Skills Affected: Weaponry, Athletics
Effect. You gain a +2 to dodge attempts made to avoid damage from metal weapons.
Effect. The armor bonus for metal armor is increased by two.

Expert Defense [-1]
Description: You can sense your opponents blade, and can temporarily harden your armor to lessen impacts.
Skills Affected: Weaponry, Athletics
Effect. You gain a +3 to dodge attempts made to avoid damage from metal weapons.
Effect. The armor bonus for metal armor is increased by three.

Basic Endurance [-1]
Description: You can draw on the strength of steel you are touching to strengthen your mental and physical fortitude.
Musts: You must be touching metal.
Skills Affected: Endurance
Vigorous. Endurance never restricts (YS 214) other skills due to a lack of rest. You may skip a night of sleep with no ill effects.
Shrug It Off. Once per scene, you may clear away a mild mental or social consequence (YS 203) as a supplemental action (YS 213).
Keep Going. You have an additional mild physical consequence slot.

Advanced Endurance [-2]
Description: You can draw on the strength of steel you are touching to strengthen your mental and physical fortitude.
Musts: You must be touching metal.
Skills Affected: Endurance
Unfaltering. Endurance never restricts (YS 214) other skills due to a lack of rest. You may
skip a week of sleep with no ill effects.
It’s Nothing. Twice per scene, you may clear away a mild mental or social consequence (YS 203) as a supplemental action (YS 213).
Never Stop. You have an additional mild and moderate physical consequence slot.

Expert Endurance [-3]
Description: You can draw on the strength of steel you are touching to strengthen your mental and physical fortitude.
Musts: You must be touching metal.
Skills Affected: Endurance
Indefatigable. Endurance never restricts (YS 214) other skills due to a lack of rest. You never need to sleep.
It’s Nothing. Twice per scene, you may clear away a mild mental or social consequence (YS 203) as a supplemental action (YS 213).
Juggernaut. You have an additional mild, moderate, and severe physical consequence slot.

Create Metal Object [-1]
Description: You are better at making metal tools, weapons, shields, etc.
Skills Affected: Craftsmanship
Effects:
Wooden Spoon. You gain a +3 to Craftsmanship checks to create an object out of metal.

Updated powers! If I didn't update it, then I'm leaving as previously stated.

Watercraft

Basic Healing [-2]
Description: You can command the power of a water fury into a body in order to heal injuries or sickness.
Musts:  Requires the affected area to be submerged in water.
Skills Affected: Scholarship.
Effects:
Home Remedies. Make a scholarship check. If you succeed with enough shifts to equal four (for humans) plus a number of shifts relative to a mild or moderate physical consequence you are treating, that consequence is cleared away. Healing animals is 2 + the consequence. Non-human sentient species such as Canim or Icemen would be 6 + the consequence. You can increase your check by by one for every increase to the time increment above the default of a few minutes. You may increase your check result after the roll by inflicting mental or physical consequences upon yourself, earning an increase equal to the number of boxes relative to the consequence. Consequences inflicted on yourself cannot by furycrafted away and must heal naturally.

Advanced Healing [-4]
Description: Your command of watercraft for medical purposes is impressive to all who take notice.
Musts:  This ability replaces Basic Healing. Requires the affected area to be submerged in water.
Skills Affected: Scholarship.
Effects:
Strong Medicine. As with Home Remedies, except you can treat severe consequences. Severe consequences are not cleared away, but are downgraded to mild, and are then treated with sleep and food for recovery.

Expert Healing [-6]
Description: Your medical watercrafting is renowned, and you can heal nearly any injury short of death itself.
Musts:  This ability replaces Basic Healing. You can treat an injury that is not submerged in water at a -2 penalty to your Scholarship check.
Skills Affected: Scholarship.
Effects:
Surgical Precision. As with Strong Medicine, except you can treat extreme consequences. Extreme consequences are not cleared away, but are downgraded to moderate, and are then treated with several day’s sleep and food for recovery.

Earthcraft

Earthsense[-1]
Description: You can sense the presence of living creatures by the pressure they put upon the ground.
Musts. You must be touching the earth.
Skills Affected: Alertness
Effects:
Earthsense: When touching the ground, you gain a +3 Alertness checks made to locate nearby living creatures up to three zones away.

External Furycrafting:

The more flexible the power, the trickier its usage is. I really don’t want to have to rewrite the entire freaking chapter in DFRPG on spellcasting...so I’m not going to.

I’m thinking on defining externalized furycrafting as coming in two types: prepared and non-prepared. Non-prepared will compare directly to evocation, and prepared to thaumaturgy. It’s important to point out that furycrafting in CA is much more limited in usage than spellcasting in DF, so the spellcasting powers will definitely not be translated over directly. (Although I like the idea of the Children of the Sun being jungle casters that aren’t dead, just really good at hiding. But I digress...)

I’m thinking that external crafting should be a -2 refresh initially, which will cover everything you can do with that element that isn’t covered by a pre-established power. This will count for only one chosen element. Expanding this out for additional elements will cost an additional refresh point per element (with the obvious note that all elements need to be defined at character creation).

Now one question I have is: should taking external furycrafting require refresh already spent in that element? On the one hand, I can see an engineer that is good at raising walls without being a beefy brute, but on the other hand I can not see even the least-powered earthcrafter being a 90-pound weakling. I think that a 2 point refresh requirement makes sense...for everything but fire.

As I mentioned above, this doesn’t fit with how firecrafters are represented in the book. While I don’t see a weak earthcrafter, I can easily see a walking flamethrower that never bothered to figure out how to manipulate emotions. Maybe use the Breath Weapon power? This would make some sense, as firecrafters pop off a lot of shots, which would be prohibited by the mental cost of using the external furycraft 9evocation) rules, but then why bother with external furycasting for fire at all?

Oh, and speaking of which, I failed to address manifested furies on purpose. In my opinion, whether or not the externalized furycraft shows up as an animal or not should be a cosmetic choice, outside of bound furies. If you use earthcrafting to crush someone’s leg with dirt, it shouldn’t matter if the dirt looks like a wolf’s head or a vice, it will still do the same stress damage.

But this brings us to bound furies. I have been tossing around the idea of a power that lets you bind a fury for a power and/or control bonus to a particular element, but that would require an aspect that represents the binding. For instance, Kalare might have had a boost to fire for binding the volcano fury to his will, but that maybe made his temper a bit harder to control (and possibly drove him insane). Think of an earthcrafter that binds a wild stone fury to his will. He might be a better earthcrafter, but would open himself up to aspect compels that inhibit some social encounters (you could go either way, with a “stony” facial expression during what would otherwise be an important emotional moment, or unconscious lust-crafting at in-opportune times). This could potentially be a broken game mechanic, but I love random aspects that make for interesting compels.

And I’m spent. Questions? Comments? Constructive Criticisms? Let me know, and meanwhile I’ll work on drafting out my ideas for the external fury crafting power set, some example furycraftings (like known spells), and a couple of items (like Bernard’s mastercraft bow, which would allow Might to compliment Bow damage)

Earthcraft:
Strength..well, is pretty self-explanatory. Earthsense, Calm Beasts, And Incite Lust could all be included in external furycrafting, but I felt they were commonly enough used powers by relatively low-powered folk in the books to warrant being separate powers. Why lust is earth and the rest are fire never seemed a logical conclusion to me, but they don’t seem contradictory either so I don’t think it bears arguing. Butcher makes the rules, we just run with ‘em.

Woodcraft:
Not a lot of refresh to be spent here. The Archery powers were based on the damage portion of the DF Strength rules, with lower refresh because you can’t do as much. Create Tool is there because I think its a simple usage that might still be possible for folks with weaker furycrafting that can’t otherwise do external stuff. Just about anything else I could think of fits more simply into external furycraft.

Firecrafting:
The Incite powers could easily be be included in externalized furycraft, but I can also see a skilled orator that is highly practiced at riling up crowds but can barely light the kindling in their fireplace.

For Inner comfort, I debated separating the warm and cold aspects. I don’t recall the Beat The Heat effect being mentioned in any of the books, but it seems a logical conclusion to me. I considered making Inner Comfort a zero-refresh cost power, but I was planning on having a requirement for externalized furycrafting where you must already have spent two points of refresh in your chosen element. Fire is where this seems a bit weak, as there seem to be plenty of examples of firecrafters that huck fireballs about almost willy-nilly that can’t do the other stuff. More thoughts on this later, when addressing external furycrafting specifically.

Windcrafting:
I lowered the refresh requirement for the Speed powers and limited how often it can be used. This seems to fit with most of the instances when Amara would use this ability, which seemed to require effort and never lasted very long. I didn’t add anything for speed and flying because I would chalk that one up to common sense rulings in the game, IE someone with higher speed would be faster at flying than someone else.

I didn’t put in discrete powers for eavesdropping or its counter because I felt that would better fit in external furycrafting.

I’m really not comfortable with a speed-based attack power that adds a bonus to attacks. I’ll explain that more with metalcrafting. If I put in something like this, I think it would be more like putting a negative modifier on the target’s defense roll, but that still seems real uncomfortable to me for balance issues. With the DFRPG mechanics, usually if you want a bonus to hit, you should be using aspects in one way or another. I’m thinking maybe a power that lets you try a maneuver to put a single-use aspect on yourself as a supplemental action. I’m putting off any decisions on this because frankly, I’m going to start my campaign at the “Feet In the Water” power level, and that seemed to be a higher-level furycraft usage, so I’ve got some time to think about it.

Metalcrafting

Iron Warfare [-2]
Description: You can use metal craft to feel the stresses and limits to your metal weapons and armor.
Musts: Must be wearing metal armor or wielding metal weapons.
Skills Affected: Weaponry
Iron Skin. When equiped with metal armor, you gain a +1 to dodge attempts made using the Weoponry skill for melee defense.
Iron Nerves. Your reactions to oponents are faster, and your metal weapon is like an extension of your arm. When using a metal weapon, you are at +1 to Weaponry checks used for attacks. Successful attacks with the weapon deal an additional point of stress.

Steel Warfare [-4]
Description: You can use metal craft to feel the stresses and limits to your metal weapons and armor.
Musts: Must be wearing metal armor or wielding metal weapons.
Skills Affected: Weaponry
SteelSkin. When equiped with metal armor, you gain a +2 to dodge attempts made using the Weoponry skill for melee defense.
Steel Nerves. Your reactions to oponents are faster, and your metal weapon is like an extension of your arm. When using a metal weapon, you are at +2 to Weaponry checks used for attacks or blocks. Successful attacks with the weapon deal two additional points of stress.

Titanium Warfare [-6]
Description: You can use metal craft to feel the stresses and limits to your metal weapons and armor.
Musts: Must be wearing metal armor or wielding metal weapons.
Skills Affected: Weaponry
Titanium Skin. When equiped with metal armor, you gain a +3 to dodge attempts made using the Weoponry skill for melee defense.
Titanium Nerves. Your reactions to oponents are faster, and your metal weapon is like an extension of your arm. When using a metal weapon, you are at +3 to Weaponry checks used for attacks, blocks, or maneuvers. Successful attacks with the weapon deal three additional points of stress.

Iron Spine [-2]
Description: You can draw on the strength of steel you are touching to strengthen your mental and physical fortitude.
Skills Affected: Endurance, Discipline
Vigorous. Endurance never restricts (YS 214) other skills due to a lack of rest. You may skip a night of sleep with no ill effects.
Shrug It Off. In a social conflict, once per scene, you may clear away a mild physical consequence (YS 203) as a supplemental action (YS 213).
Keep Going. While this furycraft is active, you two additional boxes of physical stress capacity (YS 201). If this furycraft is disabled due to lack of contact with metal or lack of concentration, this power ends and the additional stress boxes go away.

Steel Spine [-4]
Description: Your reserves are deep, allowing you to continue when most others have to stop.
Skills Affected: Endurance, Discipline
Unfaltering. Endurance never restricts (YS 214) other skills due to a lack of rest. You may
skip a week of sleep with no ill effects.
It’s Nothing. Twice per scene, you may clear away a mild physical consequence (YS 203) as a supplemental action (YS 213).
Never stop. While this furycraft is active, you gain four additional boxes of physical stress capacity (YS 201). If this furycraft is disabled due to lack of contact with metal or lack of concentration, this power ends and the additional stress boxes go away.

Titanium Spine [-6]
Description: Death himself will step back and wait for you to finish.
Skills Affected: Endurance, Discipline
Indefatigable. Endurance never restricts (YS 214) other skills due to a lack of rest. You never need to sleep.
Ha! You Call That a Hit? Three times per scene, you may clear away a mild physical consequence (page 203) as a supplemental action (page 213).
Juggernaut. While this furycraft is active, you gain six additional boxes of physical stress capacity (YS 201). If this furycraft is disabled due to lack of contact with metal or lack of concentration, this power ends and the additional stress boxes go away.

Firecrafting

Incite Emotion (Anger, Fear, Joy) [–1]
Description: You are able to incite certain strong emotions in a target—usually emotions of passion or pain. Emotions created by this ability are temporary.
Options: This ability costs 1 refresh to start and requires you to pick a single emotion you can incite, be it rage, fear, protectiveness, or the like. More potent versions (see below) may be purchased by increasing the refresh cost. The emotion this ability incites may be changed under special circumstances, as part of character development.
Skills Affected: Deceit, Intimidation.
Effects:
Emotion-Touch. If you can touch someone, you can make them feel something. You’re able to do maneuvers at +2 to your roll (using Intimidation for anger or fear and Deceit for every other emotion) that force an emotion on a target (as a temporary aspect), so long as you’re in the same zone as they are and you can physically touch them. The victim defends with their Discipline. You may be able to prevent the victim from taking other actions as well if you do this as a block (page 210) instead of as a maneuver.
Additional Emotion [–1 or more]. For every point of refresh spent on this upgrade, you can choose another emotion to use with your Incite Emotion ability. All other upgrades apply to any emotions you can incite. At Range [–1]. You may use this ability on targets up to one zone away without touching them.
Lasting Emotion [–1]. If you increase the refresh cost of this ability by 1, you gain the ability to do Emotion-Touch as a mental attack instead of a mere maneuver or block. If such an attack hits, you gain a +2 stress bonus on a successful hit (as though it were Weapon:2), increasing the chances of inflicting a mental consequence (and thus, a more lasting emotional state). The victim defends with their Discipline.
Potent Emotion [–1]. The Lasting Emotion upgrade is a prerequisite to this one. You get another +2 stress bonus on successful attacks as per Lasting Emotion, as though you had Weapon:4.

Inner Comfort [-1]
Description: You are better able to regulate your internal temperature to counter the effects of extreme weather conditions
Effects:
Ignore the Cold. As long as you aren’t soaking wet, you can generate warmth in your body to counter even extreme cold. You ignore non-targeted aspects that involve cold temperature.
Beat The Heat [-1]. Whether by training or experience, you can use this ability to dissipate heat as well as generate it, countering the heat of the desert or a smith’s forge. You ignore non-targeted aspects that involve hot temperature.