This option was meant, I believe, to convey to the reader the impossibility of the task as one may pretend to it alone; that no matter who they are, disgraced Londoners, chary Khaganinas, spies of the Surface, or even proud Tigers, none stand alone. Your <a href="/wiki/Approach_the_Banded_Prince%27s_dais" title="Approach the Banded Prince's dais"> honourable bestowment from the Banded Prince – the Prince of the Smoking Shore and Duke of all the Isles, Archipelagos and Peninsulae that were once the Sovereignty of the Humbled Satraps</a>, spoke as much.