The seeds of retribution were sown a long time ago when the power mongers started playing politics to tilt the odds in their favor. ![]() ![]() Aemond stopped her mother and told her that he didn’t need anybody’s eyes as he had already got what he had desired. Alicent lost her temper and assaulted Rhaenyra with the Valyrian steel. Alicent didn’t find anything wrong in asking for Lucerys’ eyes as she felt it was justified. But he very well knew that not only Aemond, but the whole kingdom was talking about it. Viserys was quite unhappy with the fact that Aemond had referred to his cousins as illegitimate offspring. Viserys’ judgment didn’t align with her sensibilities, and the Queen felt sidelined. Alicent demanded that retributive justice should be served at all costs. But the thing about justice is that it never favors anybody it only balances the scales. The parents and the children gathered in Viserys’ chamber, in the hope that justice would be delivered in their favor. Aemond was taken to the maester, who said that though the wound would heal with time, the eye was lost forever. Aemond would have possibly severely injured Jacaerys, but before he could do that, Lucerys impaled his eye with his dagger. Things became even more heated up when he called them illegitimate sons of Ser Harwin Strong. Aemond scorned the girls in their presence. They shared a close bond with their cousin sisters, Rhaena and Baela. Jacaerys and Lucerys arrived at the scene. They were sitting on the sidelines procrastinating, and Aemond saw the opportunity and latched onto it. He told the girls that if they had a claim on the dragons, they should have done something about it. Aemond didn’t care about what they thought. It was their mother’s dragon, and they had presumed that they were the rightful owners of it. He rode Vhagar, and when Laena’s daughters, Rhaena and Baela came to know about it, they felt betrayed. He had claimed the dragon, which was once ridden by Laena Velaryon. ![]() A king in denial, Viserys Targaryen, who considered his family to be a perfect one, could now see his kingdom drowning in a stream of blood.Īemond, Alicent’s younger son, had finally become a dragon rider. Until now, everyone had turned a blind eye towards the rivalry that was slowly developing between the two factions, Green and Red, but with a dagger piercing the royal flesh, the eyes were wide open. Alicent Hightower, seeking revenge, demanded that an eye should be cut out of Rhaenyra’s son, because of whom her son Aemond had lost his eye. It is true that any person who seeks retribution is going to dig two graves: one for his nemesis and one for himself. His ideology was underlined in Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi” (1982), where it was said that an eye for an eye would make the whole world blind. But Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi, the chief propagator of the concept of “non-violence,” disapproved of this notion. ![]() The concept says that a person who commits a crime must go through a similar ordeal as their victim was forced to go through. Age-old civilizations and even the legal systems of many countries in contemporary times believe in the law of retaliation.
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