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Yazvata are entities that are not native to our cosmos.
Their mere presence is dissonant unless they are aware of the situation and take action to keep from tainting the area around them. Some can, some can't. This doesn't make them malicious (tho some are) so much as banefull.
Amesha in partate to Ahriman are, in some cases, the very definition of malicious. At least from a human perspective. Entities that spread plague, death, chill of night, darkness, hatred, and fear as part and parcel to their nature are rarely considered good. As for malice, some enjoy their jobs, some don't.

On a more local level, there are some spirits who have developed a marked distaste for humans, or humans with specific classifications. That they take action on this distaste may be considered malice. I have so rarely as to consider it nigh unique encountered spirits that had no discernible reason for their vicious actions. Doing it, for the LOLz so to speak. All things considered, I am inclined to believe the entity was in some way affected by a Yazvata's passing... however, someone good and flummoxed the site before I could do more than contain it, so I can only share hemn observations, which are hardly suitable for the topic.

A breed thereof.

Though, I have seen malevolent entities that are completely human.

We have creatures that have proper titles commonly translated into English as "demon". Most of these do cause problems for humans, but that's a function of purity and exposure during states of being impure, not some active malevolent intent towards humanity.

Others are more picky, and my suspicion is that interpretations of malevolence stem less from the beings intent and more from their reaction to prohibitions within the culture.

The Jews would believe they are those that do the more nasty jobs that YHWH needs done. They're not evil, they just have sucky jobs.

Though highly unlikely from a historical and empirical perspective, from a mythic standpoint it does describe the state one must be in to bring Christ into one's own world.

Thats a very good point.

An entity of matter, matter beings substances that are hylic, psychic, or both, that perpetuates the ignorance of God because they are fulfilling their duties to keep the world of matter working as it should and reinforce that the Demiurge is God.

Pretty much anything that one would call malevolent in Etherism just doesn't think like us and has needs that... well... are very bad for us.

Void Aspect, for instance, eats everything. Including people. I'm sure if someone came across a Void Essence it would be a very unpleasant (perhaps even fatal) encounter. They might attribute the word demon to such a spiritual reflection.

There are Pain Essences. Fear Essences. Fury Essences. All sorts of things that will have exceedingly unpleasant effects on us just by existing or by their nature. That doesn't make them malevolent, it's just how they exist.

Even from what I understand of demons in Abrahamic Monotheism, they were mostly servants of YHVH acting out shitty jobs (like Cu said). Catholicism as I experienced it reformatted them into a rebellion of angels with the Morning Star at their head but that always seemed a bit nonsensical once you actually read Revelations and got historical context.



I find it distinctly amusing that you make an assertion as per your world view that immediately negates itself logically.

It's like the people who make objective reality claims about how all of reality is subjective. The irony. It poisons me with hilarity.