Malar is a Faerun Power of the hunt, related to Silvanus and the other “nature” gods. Malar is said to be
black, covered with wet, dripping blood, and having the fangs and
clawed forelimbs of a great cat. Hunters (both for game and in sport)
make offerings to him before setting forth in the chase, and he is said
to manifest himself in berserkers, enraged beasts, and in that type of
frenzied human killer that men deem “mad.” Bhaal was overlord to those
who view killing as an art to be coldly perfected; Malar is the patron
of those who exult in it endlessly, sensually; adventurers rather than
perfectionists. He plays a part in the Planescape adventure Something+Wild.
He once served Talos, god of the dark side of nature, until Talos grew jealous of his growing flock of worshipers. So Talos imprisoned him in a small realm in Colothys, the mountainous fourth Layer of the bitter, wind-whipped plane known as Carceri. Many of his devoted worshipers followed him there, to the game-filled canyons of the Land of the Hunt. His Petitioners are just as trapped as their master, but planars can leave if they hike it to the first Layer, Othrys, where the only known off-plane Portals are found.
The Petitioners in the Land of the Hunt take the form of unusually fierce and primitive versions of normal animals.
Sources: Dragon magazine #54 - "Down-to-earth divinity", Faiths & Avatars, Faiths & Pantheons, Forgotten Realms Adventures, Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (Third Edition), On Hallowed Ground, Something Wild, Planes of Conflict
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