The constant warfare has altered the nature of the fighting Nephites. They have entered into a form of bloodlust, where they have become numb to anything but the fight, and their desires turning to the killing in the battle. Some of this is occasioned by the shift in the nature of warfare that has occurred with the influence of the Gadiantons in the Lamanite armies. This is a new type of warfare that has changed the known rules, and the Nephite reaction has been to adopt the same destructiveness to which they have been subjected.