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Right, I'm not getting into the debate involving Malacath seeing as I don't know too much about him but I will throw my own two cents in here regardless.

It is claimed that Jyggalag is quite possibly the strongest of the Daedric Princes, that the others grew to fear his power so much that they banded together (though we have no idea who or how many) and cursed him to become Sheogorath, to be the exact opposite of what his entire sphere of influence encompassed. Furthermore they forced the curse to cause him to revert back to Jyggalag at the end of every age to destroy everything he, as Sheogorath, built and then revert and be forced to start all over again.

Now to me that says not only were they afraid of him as Jyggalag they feared him regaining that kind of power even as the Mad God to have set him into such a self-destructive cycle.

Fast forward a couple of ages and Sheogorath/Jyggalag has finally had enough of this nonsense. He finds a suitable patsy (The Hero of Kvatch) at the end of the Third Age and begins grooming them to take his place as the Greymarch begins, culminating in the patsy taking on the "curse" and becoming Sheogorath just in time for Jyggalag to finally emerge and begin his purge. Jyggalag fails miserably in this regard, losing to the new Sheogorath in a one-on-one battle though this does apparently free him of the original curse.

End result? Sounds to me like Sheogorath could quite possibly be the most powerful of the Daedric Princes by the end of TES IV though I won't deny he had a homefield advantage of a sort even if the Isles were originally Jyggalag's plane of Oblivion and if you want to throw out how he's not "technically a Daedra" then we still have Jyggalag as top contender.