Malar

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{{Infobox Deity
|Name = Malar
|Symbol = [[File:Malar symbol.jpg|150px]] '''2E/3E:'''Bestial claw with brown fur, curving talons tipped with fresh red blood '''5E:''' Clawed paw
|Aliases = The Beastlord, The Black-Blooded One, The Wild Hunter, Master of the Hunt
|Alignment = Chaotic Evil
|Divine Rank = '''2E/3E/5E:''' Lesser God '''4E:''' Exarch
|Pantheon = [[Forgotten Realms|Faerûnian]] (Deities/Gods of Fury)
|Portfolio = Hunters, marauding beasts and monsters, blood, bloodlust, evil [[therianthrope]]s, stalking
|Domains = '''3E:''' Animal, Bestial, Chaos, Evil, Gluttony, Hunt, Moon, Strength, Wrath '''5E:''' Nature
|Home Plane = '''[[Great Wheel]]:''' ''The Land of the Hunt'' ([[Carceri]]) '''[[World Tree]]:''' Fury's Heart '''[[World Axis]]:''' Deep Wilds
|Worshippers = [[Druid]]s, evil [[therianthrope]]s, hunters, [[ranger]]s, and sentient carnivores
|Favoured Weapon = A beast's claw (claw bracer)
}}
'''Malar''' is the dark, malevolent god of predation and slaughter in the [[Forgotten Realms]] campaign setting for [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. He is part of the sub-pantheon known as either the Gods of Fury or the Deities of Fury, who embody the most brutal and malign aspects of nature; this makes him a peer of [[Talos]], [[Auril]] and [[Umberlee]].

As you can probably guess from that opening spiel, Malar isn't your typical fluffy-bunny nature god! He's all about the idea of nature red in tooth and claw, survival of the fittest, and generally being the apex predator. He kills who he wants, when he wants, and that's usually "anybody he sees, whenever he sees 'em".

He is known and dreaded as ''Kazgorath'', a twisted [[dragon]]-like creature, in the [[Moonshae Isles]], ''Blue Bear'' to the Uthgardt barbarians, ''Herne'' to the [[orc]]s of the High Forest, ''Render'' on the Endless Ice and the Great Glacier, and ''The Stalker'' in Vilhon Reach.

The two sacred ceremonies of Malar are '''The High Hunt''', where a random humanoid is kidnapped and hunted by crazy Malar cultists from sundown till sunup, and '''The Feast of the Stags''', where a Malarite priest picks some random unfortunate and makes sure they get plenty of meat and fur to keep them alive through the winter.

Notable enemies of Malar include [[Silvanus]], [[Chauntea]] and [[Nobanion]].

Malar was first created by Ed Greenwood, mentioned in the "Down-to-earth divinity" article of Dragon magazine #54 (October 1981, pg 52).

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