Most Alerans display some type of rudimentary ability in all areas of fury-crafting, but tend to specialize in only one or two types. Manifested furies are necessary for the most powerful forms of fury-crafting, including flight (windcrafting) and healing (watercrafting). This involves the fury taking a visible form, often the shape of an animal, though taking the shape of a human is not unheard of.
The second form of fury-crafting is to "manifest" a fury. For example, earth crafters often draw physical might from the ground, through their furies, to allow them to lift loads far too heavy for normal people, while wind crafters can increase their speed and metalcrafters their endurance.
First, an Aleran may draw from the strength of their fury to increase their own. This fury-based magic is accomplished in one of two forms. They are used to aid them in whatever task undertaken from housework to combat. While Proto-Aleran ruins show no sign of fury-crafting ability amongst humans of the past, the Aleran people at the present day manifest personal furies in their early childhood or adolescent years, and control them with their minds. Many Alerans are unaware of the Great Furies' actual existence, imagining them to be more mythic than real, but this disbelief is incorrect. They manifest as geographic formations of great elemental power, such as volcanoes and oceans, and are more often restrained or provoked than explicitly commanded, and then only by fury-crafters of exceptional strength.
There also exist "Great Furies," the most powerful and ancient of these spirits, by which Alerans swear and curse. Some are small and cannot be seen, and others are powerful enough to manifest when called upon by their wielders. Furies are elemental spirits (earth, water, fire, wind, metal, and wood) that inhabit all aspects of Alera.
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