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|alias = Scourge of God | |alias = Scourge of God | ||
|occupation = Leader of the Hunnic Empire | |occupation = Leader of the Hunnic Empire | ||
|skills = Military might | |skills = Military might<br> | ||
|hobby = Obtaining | Unpredictable violence<br> | ||
|goals = Wreak havoc against the Romans to obtain wealth and power for himself | Leadership | ||
|hobby = Obtaining wealths<br> | |||
Conquering territories<br> | |||
Slaughtering peoples | |||
|goals = Wreak havoc against the Romans to obtain wealth and power for himself <small>(succeeded)</small> | |||
|type of villain = Barbaric Mastermind | |type of villain = Barbaric Mastermind | ||
|origin = Central Asia|crimes = Massacres all across Europe}} | |origin = Central Asia|crimes = Massacres all across Europe}} | ||
{{Quote|In the fifth century, one man brought terror and destruction to millions across Europe. Attila the Hun and his bloodthirsty barbarians tortured, raped and murdered all who stood in their way. According to legend, they dipped their arrows in the juice of boiled embryos, drank women's blood, and were descended from unclean spirits.Attila's ruthlessness knew no bounds: He slaughtered deserters and murdered his own brother. His savage Huns struck fear into the mighty Roman empire with their brutality; They razed great cities to the ground and massacred whole populations in pursuit of gold. Christians believed he'd been sent from Hell to punish sinners, Attila became known as "The scourge of God".|Introduction to a documentary about Attila}} | {{Quote|In the fifth century, one man brought terror and destruction to millions across Europe. Attila the Hun and his bloodthirsty barbarians tortured, raped and murdered all who stood in their way. According to legend, they dipped their arrows in the juice of boiled embryos, drank women's blood, and were descended from unclean spirits.Attila's ruthlessness knew no bounds: He slaughtered deserters and murdered his own brother. His savage Huns struck fear into the mighty Roman empire with their brutality; They razed great cities to the ground and massacred whole populations in pursuit of gold. Christians believed he'd been sent from Hell to punish sinners, Attila became known as "The scourge of God".|Introduction to a documentary about Attila}} | ||
{{Quote|He was a man born into the world to shake the nations, the scourge of all lands, who in some way terrified all mankind by the dreadful rumors noised abroad concerning him.|Attila as described by Priscus, relayed by Jordanes}}'''Attila the Hun''' (406 | {{Quote|He was a man born into the world to shake the nations, the scourge of all lands, who in some way terrified all mankind by the dreadful rumors noised abroad concerning him.|Attila as described by Priscus, relayed by Jordanes}}'''Attila the Hun''' (406 – March of 453) was the fifth century leader of a nomadic barbarian people known as the Huns and ruler of what was known as the Hunnic Empire from the year 434 until his death in 453. Attila was considered one of the most feared leaders of his time. | ||
==Acts of Villainy== | ==Acts of Villainy== | ||
After coming to power, he killed his brother, | After coming to power, he killed his brother, Bleda, so that no one in his family could oppose him. He mounted an attack on the Romans, both on their East and West sections, for the purpose of plundering gold and satisfying his psycho sadistic mind. One city, Naissus, was utterly destroyed, the corpses of its massacred citizens clogging up the Danube River for years. Many other cities would fall, and the poor citizens would be brutally slaughtered while Attila watched with delight. Attila was also ruthless against members of the clergy as he was known to take Christian Churches and monasteries captive and slay its monks and maidens in great number. | ||
He used his fearsome reputation to create a massive extortions racket, gaining ever-increasing amounts of gold from the terrified Romans for the purpose of keeping him away. He would also impale deserters through the rectum, leaving them to die slowly over a period of two days. He was also a polygamist, and one of his wives fed him two of his sons for dinner out of jealousy for the boys' mother, though Attila, whose one redeeming quality was that he was apparently a loving father, did not know of this. | He used his fearsome reputation to create a massive extortions racket, gaining ever-increasing amounts of gold from the terrified Romans for the purpose of keeping him away. He would also impale deserters through the rectum, leaving them to die slowly over a period of two days. He was also a polygamist, and one of his wives fed him two of his sons for dinner out of jealousy for the boys' mother, though Attila, whose one redeeming quality was that he was apparently a loving father, did not know of this. |