Sharlayan is a nation of scholars in Final Fantasy XIV. Located on an island to the north of Eorzea, Sharlayan is well-known for being being a city of scholarship, and the Circle of Knowing, Sons of Saint Coinach, and Students of Baldesion all hail from the city-state. Appropriately, their patron deity is Thaliak the Scholar. The abandoned city became accessible in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward expansion.