.The divergence of traditions occurred during the traumatic fifth century of the Third Age. Disease took root among the herds of the Urgath, causing a desperate shortage of food andwealth among the Urgath tribes. Desperation bred change,and several Urgath tribes bound themselves to an opportunistic and power-hungry male elder of the Sahd tribe.Sahd's follwers rejected the matriarchal and semi-sedentaryways of the Urgath and turned to the large-scale raiding of their neighbors for sustenance. Before the great rebellion of the Brygath was complete, the tribes had journeyed into the west, been soundly defeated by the armies of Gondor, and driven back to their homelands in eastern Gathod.In the mid-Third Age, the Brygath share the plains of Gathod with scattered Asdriags, Odhriags and Urgath.