Two observations about the Book of Omni.  The first is that the meeting with the Mulekites is actually quite important for the Nephites, because the Mulekites confirm that Jerusalem fell.  Whether or not Jerusalem would fall was the major doctrinal conflict between Nephi and his brothers.  Lehi has a vision to confirm it, and so does Jacob, but for obvious reasons their vision that their prophecies were right doesn’t really validate their prophetic authority.  We don’t pay much attention to the Jerusalem prophecy because we already know Jerusalem fell.  But the Nephites aren’t us.  It meant something to them.

The second observation, which is totally obvious and I’m surprised I missed it before, I’m probably the last Mormon alive to figure this out, is that the last prophet who gives the records to King Benjamin is named Amaleki, which is suspiciously similar to Amlici and Amalickiah, the two great Nephite enemies and dissenters in the next few decades.  I’m not the only one who’s wondered if part of the rebellions and dissensions the Nephites experienced were efforts by the remnant Mulekite elite to reclaim their status before King Mosiah supplanted them.  Now I wonder if the rebellions also involved the lineage of the old prophetic elites who were also supplanted by King Mosiah.  Or else the rebels merely claimed the tie to add legitimacy to their efforts, making Amlici and Amalickiah so many False Dmitris or Perkin Warbecks.

Side note:  Amulek is also a very similar name.  Could he have been a member of the old priestly lineage?  It’s curious that first words out of Amulek’s mouth are “I am a  Nephite.”  Since everyone an area is a Nephite in the broad sense, he probably means that he is literally a descendant of Nephi.  In fact, Amulek opens his sermon by tracing his descent back to Nephi through a man who was involved in a traditional miracle story, then all the way back to Joseph.  Then he brags about his reputation, his kin ties, and his social network.   Amulek has social status, which would fit very well with his being a member of the old elite Nephitic line of which Amlici was the last to hold the position of prophet.  With Amulek at his side, Alma has both the authority of new dispensation that he and Mosiah and Benjamin have instituted, plus the authority of the old dispensation of the Nephitic lineage.

If you see the Nehors as an argument for an alternate basis of legitimate authority, based on popularity and demagoguery instead of lineage and spiritual power (this is why the Nehors preach universal salvation–they are denying the basis of the old Nephite and new Mosiachite claims for authority through unique access to God and the saving truths and ordinances), then converting Zoram also gives Alma a kind of Nehorian claim to authority too.  Zoram was as silver-tongued as they’d come and he had not only been out-orated by Alma and Amulek, he joined their side.

The only thing missing is a prominent Mulekite.  Of what lineage was Captain Moroni?