they landed in the north like 2,000 years before the nephites and lamanites and built a civilization which spread like throughout the whole northern part of this land ... thousands of years later there was a war ... everyone was killed , women and children , too ... only two men lived : the two generals of the armies that had been fighting ... one was the protector of the stones , orion ... and the other was scorpius , who wanted the stones for their powers ... orion killed scorpius , but then faintedbecause he lost too much blood , you know ... when he woke up , the nephites had found him ... he told them of their power and told them to protect the stones at all cost ... and after living with them for like nine months , he died .