Coriantumr² was the last king of the Jaredite nation, a people the record traces to the time of the Tower of Babel and whose end it places around 500 B.C. He came to power as many mighty men rose up to destroy him through secret combinations seeking the kingdom, touching off a war that consumed the people (Ether 14:11-12). Having studied all the arts of war and the cunning of the world, he gave battle to those who sought to destroy him (Ether 13:16).
Shared wounded Coriantumr² in the thigh, so that he did not return to battle for two years, during which the people shed blood with none to restrain them (Ether 13:31). In the first year of Lib, Coriantumr² came against the land of Moron, and Lib wounded him in the arm before Coriantumr²’s army drove Lib to the seashore (Ether 14:12).
In the second year of the war the word of the Lord came to the prophet Ether, who was sent to tell Coriantumr² that if he and all his household would repent, the Lord would give him his kingdom and spare the people. Otherwise all would be destroyed except Coriantumr² himself, who would live only to see another people receive the land and would be buried by them (Ether 13:20-21). Coriantumr² did not repent.
His final enemy was Shiz, who had sworn to avenge the blood of his brother, killed by Coriantumr². Their pursuit emptied the land until the two armies were destroyed and only Coriantumr² and Shiz remained. Coriantumr² beheaded Shiz and then collapsed, the sole survivor as Ether had foretold (Ether 15:30-32).
Coriantumr² was later discovered by the people of Zarahemla, descendants of Mulek who had come from Jerusalem, and dwelt with them for the space of nine moons, fulfilling the prophecy that he would be buried by a people who inherited the land (Omni 1:21).