At Home In Ys

When Gratillonius reflects that Ys has become his home, the Andersons have shown us this happening. He no longer wants to return to Britannia or to gain greater power in the Empire. He works for Ys. He can have no women but the Queens but they are enough. He cannot have a son but has many daughters and Dahut might become another:

Semiramis
Dido
Cartimandua
Zenobia

Dido was the only one of these that I knew anything about.

Alan Moore, discussing a scene in his Watchmen, refers to the experience of looking at an old group photograph and thinking, "Look at them all being happy together. They didn't know how it was going to turn out..."