“The chapters recounting the Jaredite demise (Ether 13–15) feature a rejection of God’s prophets, escalating warfare, a polarized society in which everyone is swept up by one side or the other, a gathering for the final battle, and then a cataclysmic conclusion. It … sounds somewhat like Mormon’s account of the end of the Nephites. However, Moroni never points out the rather significant differences: Jaredite troubles arose from rival factions among the leadership rather than from competing ethnic groups, the last prophet had no role in the struggles, the two forces were fairly evenly matched, and one side did not successfully conquer the other” (Hardy, Understanding the Book of Mormon, 229).