Let say that Alaric I, King of Visigoths and a man usually assosiated with Sack of Rome in 410. Instead of dying the same year, is able to recover from his illness and lives for at least few more years. So, Visigoths have their most well known ruler leading them longer, and man blamed by Romans for this tragedy still lives and tries to create his own Kingdom on lands of the Empire.
WI: Alaric lives for another decade.
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This is a common misconception but neither Alaric nor his immediate successors were looking to establish a kingdom (the way we understand a kingdom to be). Rather they were trying to get integrated inside the empire (especially in the military) and exact several concessions for their previous service to the emperor. That the Goths over the course of the V century managed to create a proper kingdom is a byproduct of the declining authority of the emperor outside of Italy.