Where is the glowing green cave in Dravaninan Hinterlands?

[Jaywalker]

Listen I'm a simple player. I'm literally flying back and forth all over the Dravanian Hinterlands looking for the cave Banri Oda showed in his part of fanfest with the Thaliak statue. Knowing there's a whole spot I've just had no clue existed in this area for years is driving me nuts. And I am not finding it so far.

Please, take pity on me. Does anyone have/is anyone willing to share the coordinates for the glow cave?

[Canadane]

Just go up the mountain path, iirc.
You need to go there once or twice for story reasons, it's hard to think you had missed it.

[Eloah]

So I didn't see that part of the stream. I found a glowing "cave" but no statue, so I too am curious where this is?

[Jaywalker]

Lmao when I did the whole "find somewhere the lifestream is close and whistle" quest in ShB for the first time, I managed to stop like one ridge away from the sparkling destination and just stood in place frantically trying to figure out how to whistle. It took me like ten minutes to figure it out.

Sometimes I can be observant but sometimes I am very much not lol. Thank you though.

Edit: I am still dumb. I think this is like the sparkle destination. If anyone is willing to send a coordinate, roughly, or even a zone that would help a lot. I've probably passed right by it without noticing multiple times now. It's a curse.

[Iscah]

I haven't seen the footage yet, but is it the semi-open-air caves around Matoya's Cave?

[Jaywalker]

It looks similar, but unless I missed it (which is entirely possible) I think it's a different spot? It's an area in a kind of mountain-y spot with a lot of grass. Hole in the ground you can pop into and there are a ton of glowing green crystal stalagmites rising from the ground, and theoretically a statue of Thaliak is perched on one of them. The cavern was very visible from outside the hole in the video too, and the ground was decently even around it IIRC?

[Rongway]

It sounds like in your excitement you mixed up two different bits.


The place they visited with the green crystals was this hole here around (10.5, 35.1):




The statue of Thaliak is in the EW full trailer. It came up because the tour group flew over the Thaliak River, of which Oda-san had this to say:

So this is for Thaliak, the Ruler of Rivers and Wisdom and God of Knowledge, which is the patron deity of Sharlayan. As you probably know, all of the city states of Eorzea have their own patron deity, such as Llymlaen, Watcher of the Seas and Goddess of Navigation, for Limsa Lominsa, and Nald'thal, Overseer of the Underworld and God of Commerce for Ul'dah. In the trailer, actually, when you see Old Sharlayan, there is a statue of Thaliak that you can see. So, if you have listened to this you should go back and find it.

The statue is quite prominent. You won't miss it if you watch the trailer.

[Jaywalker]

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Rongway thank you so much, you're my hero. ToT

I was never gonna find that alone lmao. It is near other stuff I explored but excitement and a natural tendency to be godawful at navigation def led me astray.

I did see Thaliak in the trailer for sure (and hyped), I think my mix up was thinking there was an additional hidden statue in the Hinterlands I missed. That I can def say was an excitement mix up. Seriously though, this was going to nag at and bother me until I figured out what was going on forever. Appreciate the clarification a ton!!