Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24332685-20140111015135/@comment-24944355-20140730075404

You have to understand that the creed was written by religious figures & politicians, The Emperor had little to no input in it. As for Malice I take his existence as solid inference that the eight fold path refers to eight chaos gods. We know of five, the remaining three could be on the outs with the big four (like Malice) for various reasons or perhaps haven't yet come into full existence or maybe a combination of the two.