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Attila the Hun, Scourge of God, was arguably one of the greatest threats to the Roman Empire ever, and certainly was THE threat during the middle of the 5th century. His realm spread along Rome's northern borders in Germania, Pannonia, Dacia, and the Steppe. How far north his realm stretched is unknown precisely, but most consider the Baltic Sea to be the Northern Border of his Hunnic Empire.

So, in 453, after raiding and ravaging Northern Italy, and likely planning an invasion of the ERE after Marcian stopped paying tribute in 450, he died at a wedding, presumably from a nose-bleed. Maybe poison, but that doesn't really matter.

What if he just hadn't drunk so much, and didn't die that night. More interestingly, what if Attila the Hun had lived at least 20 more years? In the immediate future, how does this affect the WRE, ERE, and Sassanian Empire? What would be the reverberating affects of continued pressure and violence by a unified barbarian force under Attila's leadership?
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