In this case, the effect on their morale could go either way after losing him, too. The troops might fight more fervently since their pope was martyred, as it were.
@Scrwd You could also apply the spoiler tag to the image, if you'd like, instead of swapping to just a link like that. It's pretty effective for saving space but also keeps the image right here.
Here's an example just for reference on how it looks in practice. You just get the spoiler and /spoiler one around the img and /img ones.