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I actually thought of the same thing as A Wikia contributor: Malice is responsible for the tyranids.

Think about it. He hates all the other gods and wants to defeat them. So he uses his powers to create the tyranids. The plan is to wipe out all the other living things in the galaxy, leaving just the tyranids. Since the gods rely on mortal emotions to power them and all free-thinking living things would be dead the gods would become weaker and anarchy would ensue in the immaterium, which Malice feeds off. So he becomes the strongest god and rules the warp.

The Emperor being malice, or at least an avatar of him, is also possible. The Emperor was born due to te sacrifices of Shamans in 8th Millenium BC. Malice can be summoned into the matterium if a suitable sacrifice is done, which this could of been. Malice-Emperor realises that he could use humanity to his own ends against the other gods and for general anarchy (which the imperium has loads of). Malice-Emperor guides humanity through its early stages, but the othe rgods realie and send warp storms to halt humanity's progress. After Slaanesh is born, The Malice-Emperor realises he needs to take direct control of humanity, and reveas himself, creates the legions and goes on the great crusade. Chaos, realising Malice has te upper hand again, corrupt Horu against his father, who in turn corrupts half of the primarchs. Horus mortally wounds Malice-Emperor, who is interred in the golden throne. Part of Malice's essence is in the warp, continuing to create anarchy so the other gods figt each other and can't breach the matterium on a large scale. The other part of Malice powers the astronomicon, guiding humanity to fight everyone and everything, keeping the galaxy in anarchy