She's not a weaponsmith, but do you know about Emma? She's from The Last Remnant, and since that's also a Squeenix game you'd thing they'd be able to give us kick-ass older female party members in the FF series too. :(

@ Rinoa: Hi! I'm another random stranger here via ff_press, hope you don't mind! ^^; I agree with your post and also tend to snort at the ages given to some of the FF women in manuals or ultimanias and age them up in my head. (Also, damnit, I'm 25 and that's not old, media industry! I can still save the world! \o/)