According to tribal law, she was now the head warrior of the tribe and effectively male. Graena underwent the challenge and emerged bloody and broken, but victorious. In order to prove herself to the elders, Graena had to run a gauntlet of the strongest warriors in the tribe and wrest the belt of the head warrior from his body. The elders believed women were too valuable to let go. At that time, only men were allowed to leave the tribe. When she tried to leave the tribe to seek her fortune in southern lands, the elders of the tribe told her she could not leave. The famous barbarian explorer Graena was a member of the Sky Pony tribe of the Uthgardt northerners.