Some scholars connect this to a prophecy in Second Nephi about people fighting against the Nephites being cursed with dark skin.
He is described as "cunning and wise as to the things of the world",[3] and is part of the order of Nehor, who taught priestcraft among the Nephites and killed Gideon.
He gains many followers, who are later called Amlicites, and the Nephites fear that Amlici will take away their religious freedom if he becomes king.
[8] University of North Carolina professor of history and religious studies Grant Hardy writes of Mormon’s efforts to connect the Amlicites' markings and an earlier prediction of Nephi.
[5][12] The Encyclopedia of the Book of Mormon from the Community of Christ says that after joining the Lamanites, the Amlicites intermingled and dispersed, unmentioned because they were no longer a separate group.
[13] Several scholars from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints theorize instead that the Amlicites did not disappear as they seem to after Alma 2.
Conkling further describes how no other group is mentioned without explanation in the Book of Mormon and both the Amlicites and the Amalekites were part of the order of Nehor.