Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26443838-20160111023755/@comment-24183764-20160325001339

Avatar Beta wrote: Not totally accurate. The dude killed himself in a stubborn attempt to prove the king was an honorable man. That's not noble, that's just a mix of stupidity and tragedy. I think it's one of those "how you look at it" kind of things.

How I see it is someone in Liam's position would have had to have believed the king was honorable (I mean he was a naval lieutenant) and so, like many militant personnel, he would have believed in the best of his superiors and their motives and would do anything to prove it. Unfortunately, his beliefs were wrong but even so his death wasn't in vain as it showed the true nature of the king.

Until the episode airs I guess you can't really say Liam's death was noble or not since we don't know what the disillusioned naval personnel did after Liam's demise and whether or not they tried to let the king's subjects know.