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 ...

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.

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 ...