Haha, don't be all humble about striving to be a writer, this is better written than most articles you can find by video game journalists out there today. Really awesome stuff, I enjoy the Highwind lineage in the series.

Tiny contribution: I believe one of the cities in FFIII had a legend about a dragoon who saved them once, and it coincides with a part where the party is expected to all switch to dragoons to go up against a challenging winged boss.