Question
In House of the Dragon episode 10 Lucerys Velaryon is sent to Storms End to deliver a message to Lord Borros Baratheon to ask for support of his mother's Rhaenyra claim to the throne.
While there, he is there he sees his uncle Aemond Targaryen who had previously lost an eye to Lucerys during a fight over Aemond's claiming of Vhagar.
The two exchange some heated words, and then Aemond tears off his eye patch to reveal a blue sapphire like stone in the place of his ruined eye.
We have no seen this eye or has it been mentioned in previous episodes, so what is the significance?
Answer
This is simply an artificial eye. Historically they were made of gold, but Aemond apparently chose a different precious material. We haven't seen this sapphire before as in court he preferred to cover it:
At the age of ten, Aemond lost his right eye during a fight with his nephew Lucerys Velaryon. Subsequently Aemond took to putting a sapphire in place of the missing eye. Aemond was also known to wear an eye patch over his sapphire eye at times, apparently when he was in open court and did not want to frighten noble ladies with his scars (such as when he was in the Round Hall of Storm's End with Borros Baratheon's wife and daughters).
Answered By - Chanandler Bong
