List of Final Fantasy references in A Realm Reborn

[OMEGA_HACK]

Male dragoons alternate weapon drawn pose is the same pose from the famous artwork of yoshitaka amano's Kain Highwind pose. FF4

[Ardbob]

Male dragoons alternate weapon drawn pose is the same pose from the famous artwork of yoshitaka amano's Kain Highwind pose. FF4

I think this is mostly covered by the part where I talk about their AF armor being modeled after Kain's armor, but I'll add a note about the pose as well.

"2. The adventures from version 1.0 are called "Warriors of Light"."

This is not true, you are called a WoL regardless of whether or not you are a Legacy player. The first time this is mentioned in story is the level 15 quests where Raubahn says you are one of them too, even if you are a 2.0 player.

I know that all adventurers are Warriors of Light. I worded that badly. I'll fix it right now.

VII: Shinra and Garlemald share a similar origin in the sense that they both started small and insignificant, until they figured out how to use the world's dominant element (Ceruleum is a refined form of Aether) to their advantage and exploded in power.

It's a somewhat generic backstory for a villainous empire so I don't know if I'd consider it a reference to Shinra specifically. I'll put it under Possible References.

[AugustFlynn]

The job crystals in XIV seem like a direct reference to the job crystals in V. They housed souls of past warriors of light.

[Karja]

For FF7 the Jessie reference is still missing.
They introduced her in 2.3 in the Main Story.
More reference in her Wiki entry.

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Jessie

[ilebur]

1. The Ceruleum Processing Plant might be purposely similar to the Mako Reactors from Final Fantasy 7. (credit: aranwade)

We can also see Biggs using a security console to open a gate in the Processing Plant much like in the start of FF7: http://i.imgur.com/BrlKQMI.jpg