Lamanite Warriors “were lazy and idolatrous...wild and ferocious” believing in the false traditions of their fathers. They trusted in their own abilities and not in the strength of the Lord. The Book of Mormon tells that “the heads of the Lamanites were shorn, they were naked, save it were skin which was girded about their loins...” (Alma 3) They were armed with bows, arrows, stones and slings. “...They had marked themselves with red in their foreheads after the manner of the Lamanites...” These wicked warriors “...reap their rewards according to their works, whether they were good or whether they were bad, to reap eternal happiness or eternal misery...”