attending feasts, sometimes training together at arms or studying under the same maester) only caused to increase this dislike. The time the six boys were forced to spend together (e.g. Aemond and his siblings became bitter rivals to Rhaenyra's three sons, Princes Jacaerys, Lucerys and Joffrey Velaryon, resenting them for stealing their birthright, the Iron Throne. The enmity between Aemond's mother, Alicent, and older half-sister, Rhaenyra, was passed on to their children. Additionally, Prince Daemon Targaryen, the younger brother of King Viserys and Aemond's uncle, was said to be notably cool towards Aemond and Aegon, as their births had pushed him back even further in the line of succession as well. This eventually led to the rise of the ' queen's party' at the royal court, as opposed to the ' party of the princess'. The king had named Rhaenyra, his only surviving child by his first marriage, his official heir in 105 AC, but refused to change the order of succession after the birth of two healthy sons. The births of Aemond and his older brother Aegon were the cause of some strife at the court of Viserys I. Aemond would later also have a younger brother, Daeron. He had two older sisters, Rhaenyra, Viserys's daughter by his first wife, and Helaena, and an older brother, Aegon. History Early lifeĪemond was born in 110 AC to King Viserys I Targaryen and his second wife, Queen Alicent Hightower. As a young man, Aemond wore nightblack armor, chased with gold. Īs a child, Aemond was bold, wild, willful, hot-tempered and unforgiving, and grew to be a proficient and dangerous swordsman. 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). Subsequently Aemond took to putting a sapphire in place of the missing eye.

At the age of ten, Aemond lost his right eye during a fight with his nephew Lucerys Velaryon. Ewan Mitchell as Aemond in House of the Dragon.Īt birth, Aemond was said to be half the size his older brother, Aegon, had been, though he was twice as fierce.

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