"In This Sign, I Conquer"

WI: Attila converts after nearly dying in 453? Does he start a "Hunnish crusade" in Asia? Does he make final peace with Rome and abandon his earlier plan to take Constantinople?
 
If anything, he'd continue his campaigns under the presumption that, yes, under that sign he would conquer. Conquer and become King of all Christendom.
If his conversion is genuine.
 
If anything, he'd continue his campaigns under the presumption that, yes, under that sign he would conquer. Conquer and become King of all Christendom.
If his conversion is genuine.

But in that case, how would he justify excluding the biggest gold chest (Costantinople) from his plans?
Even he has become pious and virtuous and willing to crusade against infidels (assuming he can find one, since Mahamud is not born yet), he is nonetheless at the head of a loose confederation of tribes that are there for the plunder.
His rule is far from being uncontested: if his aim are not golden enough, smaller chief would simply go away and find another would-be-leader
 
WI: Attila converts after nearly dying in 453?

To which branch? Arianism, chalcedonian, or (unlikely) Miaphytism?


Does he make final peace with Rome and abandon his earlier plan to take Constantinople?

Highly unlikly. Unless Attila has a complete change of personality his conversion will make him claim to lead all Christians, so the first step is most likely to demand submission of the other Christian leaders, and I don't see the emperor of Byzanz accepting that. As the council of chalcedon had repudiated the primacy of Rome (and hence the pope), which caused the first rift, there is a small chance that the pope sides with Attila under the condition that he conquers Constantinople.
On the other hand Attila just plundered Italy so that might not go over so well.
 
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