Realising his mission is futile, Lucerys attempts to leave — only for Aemond to make a chilling demand. "I want you to put out your eye, as payment for mine," he says, referring to the childhood ...

Aemond is a fascinating villain ... Admittedly, Ragetti actually wears a wooden prosthetic eye more often than an eyepatch, even if it "splinters 'somefink' terrible". The sequences in which ...

When this leads to a huge fight with Jacaerys and Lucerys Velaryon, causing Aemond to lose one of his eyes, that’s when everything shifts. From then on, he’s driven by a need for revenge ...

However, Aemond way overcompensates by claiming and taming Vhagar, the largest and oldest of the living dragons. A fight with his Velaryon nephews and cousins ensues, during which he loses an eye.