Mālgal
Mālgal or the Shepherd, often given the epithet Temlūk, is the Kembar of both agriculture and decay, medicine and disease. Where his wife Bēlkar loves beasts and trees, he favors smaller, lesser creatures, for which reason he is also known as the Keeper of the Little Things. He made the Swams with Bēlkar.
Long ago, the Shepherd taught the Elder Children how to grow and farm their own fields, so that they might feed themselves.
He did not learn the ways of rot, poison, and pestilence until after Gimīlhizar’s fall, who introduced such things to the world.
From “Concerning the Kembar”
Mālgal is the spouse of Bēlkar. Yet his attention is on lowlier beings than hers, for he cherishes those that are meek, often seeing in them a tough courage, and a hardiness in difficult times. Therefore he calls himself a keeper of the Little Things, and has been known also as Temlūk, the Shepherd. Rats and mosses and snakes and weeds are his flock, as are the insects that sing amongst the reeds, the grass beneath a trampling foot, or the many secret creatures too small for sight to descry. In strength he has might little less than Thobrauk, though he is much slower to anger, and gentler with his power. But when he is roused he is dreadful to behold, for his wrath can swarm over his foes like a horde of locusts in the field; and of all the Kembar, except perhaps Gimīlhizar, he is most likely to see his vengeance made complete.
In the early days, his gardens were fair and peaceful, and he grew green herbs and tilled brown earth. But Gimīlhizar deceived him, and poisoned his plots and uprooted them, or choked them with slime. Thence came the bogs and rotting fens, and leeches bred there; and many creatures became polluted with plague or venom or blight, and they grew endlessly hungry, and became perilous and feared. Yet Mālgal never abandoned them, for he loved them still. He is now a dread master of disease, at variance with much else that lives. Because of this, there is strife between him and Bēlkar, and she is bitterly against him, and scorns him as a corrupted fool.