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One of the heirs to the Peldan throne, called Impelanto, led the expedition to found a new colony around 500 BCE: [[Arsal]]. Arsal had very expansionist trends from the beginning. They gathered a strong military force and in the 400s BCE they took over their neighbour city-states, installing members of the Impeles to rule them. They had good trade connections with the Outer Lands to the west, which granted them a prestige position together with other cities as Tingá and Lespanza, also former Peragian colonies. Lespanza was a very prosperous state, with connections to the Peragian sphere they were part of, Intergua to the south, the rest of Peragen Exterior and the Outer Lands to the west.

 

Arsal and Lespanza grew until their spheres clashed, especially under [[Basped IV]]'s reign. Basped IV's heir was [[Antares I|Antares]], the brother of Impelanta herself. They were adopted by the king, a common practice inside the Arsalian monarchy, but they rivalled with the interests of Libana, a powerful member of the Impeles and cousin of Basped. Libana planned a coup d'etat and Lespanza assisted her to kill Basped, Antares and Impelanta and install her son in the throne, in the hopes of establishing a puppet monarch. However, Impelanta survived and was crowned as [[Impelanta III|Impelanta III of Arsal]].

 

Impelanta installed friendly leaders and members of the Impeles in the thrones of every state that entered in war against the alliance she now led, the Commonwealth of Pelda. The Commonwealth started to be more and more centralised by Arsal until it ended being a whole political entity: "the lands where Impelanta's heirs ruled", ''Impelantia'', ''[[Impelanza]]'', an empire with a long history from the 3rd century BCE to the 6th AD. Playing political games, war and colonisation, Impelanza would end up reaching [[Gondwana]] and [[Aurora]] with colonies, trade and war, as well as ruling almost all of Southern Arcturia.

 

Tunseism was key for the empire's integrity, including in its rites every deity praised in the Impelanzan territory and attributing the Arsalian rulers the status of highest authorities in the religion. The monarchs showed themselves not only merciful and accepting cultures and religions, but defending them and making them important in such a big entity. Even when ''de iure'' respecting the local cultures, it was unavoidable to leave some influence from the rulers' one. Probably the main aspect is the language itself, Impelanzan, adopted by the other cultures as a ''lingua franca'' and, at the end, as the main language. Another imperialist factor was the local leaders' integration into the imperial structure, and a strong propaganda and exemplary punishments against those who opposed the Arsalian leadership.