Gherjnuthal represented a custom within Hynestian society, where the royal family's oldest offspring would undertake a quest of goodwill and moral uprightness prior to reaching the age of fourteen years. To avoid potential penalties when she was discovered trying to give the Solstice Globe back to Livno III – following the smuggler Lando Calrissian's instruction to transport it to the Galactic Empire – Princess Rinetta Gan asserted that she was observing this custom.