There is a named band of Gadiantons who leave the Nephite territories and go to the “northernmost part of the land.” In that place they “build up unto themselves a kingdom.” Mormon tells us that there is a movement of this people into the lands northward, and that they found a city and kingdom. This becomes important in Mormon’s symbolic association between the Gadianton robbers at the end of the Book of Mormon. Mormon has a direct tie between the two groups.