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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, aculturization processes were unavoidable. 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.
Another instrument for integrity was the expansion of the already existing [[Aldanic Games]], a sports tournament in which initially the Outer Peragian cities participated, which was turned into a pan-Impelanzan event by Impelanta III. They were held every two years, with a gap of one year during which each participant city found their athletes and trained them. The Aldanics expanded out of Impelanza for the first time when, in the year 164 AD, the Kormistazic monarch was invited by Timópora I to participate in the games, and other friendly countries to the Impelanzan rulers started to join the games ever after.
The end of Impelanza came with the [[Toré eruption]]. The empire had been weak for some years already, but the eruption caused a massive agricultural crisis that would make the empire shatter into pieces in some years. 513 is the common date for its fall since it was when the House of the Impeles was expulsed from Arsal and an aristocratic regime, the [[Arsalian Alliance]], was established.
=== The Age of the Thousand Realms ===
Following the idea that, as Impelanta III herself did, no blood connections were needed for political legitimacy, the House of the Impeles was expulsed from Arsal when the last of their monarchs, Impelanta XI, claimed to descend from the founder of Impelanza. This is now broadly considered to be a pretext for the growing power the aristocrats linked to the Impeles had acquired for some time already.
The name for the following period was implemented by the Arsalic Commonweath historians; however, the current knowledge of the transition period between Impelanza and this era makes it clear that it was a continuation of the process of political independence from the Arsalian power that had started when the Arsalian rulers had stopped enforcing any loyalty to the Impeles, other than religiously wise. The Arsalian Alliance lasted for three more centuries, but the relevance of what formerly was Impelanza's capital was limited. Arsal, being in Peragen Exterior and lacking any territorial connection to the continent, was left as a ceremonial site for the rest of monarchies, who kept on following the Tunseist religion but refused to give Arsal any political power over them.
In continental Peragen, the realm of Conoso was well located near to the coastal centres and Intergua. Trade flowed through it, and the access to the Interguan resources made the monarchy prosperous. The Conosian Games were founded in response to the Aldanics, and after them came other as the Lespanzan Games or the Mernian Games.
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