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Than i think the daemons of Malice should be Enslavers since Malal/Malice is the Chaos God of Parasites. It could be weak at first but over time it will eventually become stronger and stronger as he feeds off the other Chaos Gods.

Though technically Enslavers could be thought of as daemons since they are warp entities (by that token, couldn't the same could be said about the Eldar gods?), I don't think they are beholden of any particular god.

There are many types of creatures in the warp, not just what we think of as chaos daemons. Though they are all formed of the same stuff, they have different motives and strengths. Creatures like Enslavers, Warp Leviathans, and the like, are all separate entities, and though I'd assume that the Chaos Gods, as the absolute masters of the warp could bind any of those creatures to their will should they so choose, are not intrinsically related to them.

As to Malice/Malal, there are countless gods in the warp, ranging in power from the Big Four at one end, to short lived lesser gods of about the same power level as a lesser daemon at the other. Malice sits somewhere in the middle there. I think it's been said that Malal, while powerful, was only about as strong as some of the more powerful daemon princes, and only the meanest fraction of the power of one of the Four.

The Enslavers aren't really much like Chaos Daemons. Daemons like to corrupt, the Enslavers only destroyed, which would make them natural enemies of Daemonkind as they'd quite rapidly exhaust the galaxy of viable playthings.

As Malice represents the paradox of Chaos fighting against itself, I'd say it's a fair bit more powerful than most daemons but would not be able to stand against the big four in a stand up fight, but it will exist so long as Chaos remains Chaos.

There's no difference between the various life forms called Chaos Gods, Daemons, etc. They are all merely warp based entities or varying degrees of power. Some small, some immense.

Mellow wrote:
There's no difference between the various life forms called Chaos Gods, Daemons, etc. They are all merely warp based entities or varying degrees of power. Some small, some immense.

I disagree, that's like saying "there's no difference between a human and a goldfish, they're all merely carbon based entities with varying degrees of genetic complexity" (and yes, a shrimp does have a genetic code many times longer than a human, so it's not a perfect analogy). It gets the essence of the statement correct, but it neglects a tremendous ammount of practical information about said entities that would be very important should one ever meet one at any point.

Tzeentch likes to take Warp Leviathans and make them his pets. They aren't borne from him so they aren't daemons, though. If I recall correctly. Tzeentch has to actually go and get one from the wild (though that's pretty easy for him to do)