The Celt ships reached the eastern shore on the tenth morning after their creation. The Celts began to make temporary settlements a few miles inland. After fourty days had passed, many of the more adventurous Celts suggested that the area further inland should be explored. Five days later, a small crew set out to the northwest.

After three days of marching, the Celt band came across a person, and this foreigner did not look normal to them. He wore a strange type of robe and the Celts proceeded with caution. The foreigner did not understand the Celts when they spoke, but this was not just a normal foreigner; this was Aglaen the Almalë, and within minutes he had picked up enough Celtic to carry on a conversation. The Celts explained their arrival, where their fellow Celts were, how long they had been there, what Cardë had told them, and other such things that the Celts had encountered.

That same day, Aglaen decided to return to Caethir (as it had been named by the arriving Celts), north of the Huivir River. Within two days they had returned. Once there, the Almalë met the blessed people of Cardë and the settlement that they had built.

Also that same day, Aglaen sent his message to the other Almalae through the long miles between them. The Almalae, being supernatural, arrived almost immediately to meet the newcome people. From there, the Almalae began to teach and support the Celts, as they were ordered by Cardë to do.

With the intellectual support that the Celts received from the Almalae, they began to want to create a way to number things and a way to write dates. The Celts, inspired by the fascinating tales about the fight between Cardë and Gacatë that Aglaen told to them, decided to base their number system on ten (for the ten days that Cardë spent rebuilding Gacatë's corrupted world before Gacatë was exiled), and they chose to base their dating system on seven (for the seven days that Cardë spent making Almalinë). They saw thirteen (the number of days that Cardë spent on his first world) to be an evil number, because the creation of Carde that took him thirteen days was the cause of betrayal and violence, and so from there on, the Celts always were suspicious of the number thirteen. The only recognitioin that they would give it is by giving it a special name... They named the word thirteen as "guc," a word that sounded just as terrible and disgusting as the event which it represented.

With the guidance of the Almalae, the Celts developed a calendar so that they could record events of their history. As for the names of the months, the Celts named them after things around them in nature that they found beautiful so that they could honor the wonderful creations of Cardë. In addition, every year, after the end of the final day, there was always a special period that lasted a few hours that became a time of deep reflection and thought for the Celts. They would often pray to Cardë extensively during those few hours and give thanks for all the good that they had been given the past year. In addition, they always fasted the day before, the day after, and during this time, and during the fast they drank only water to sustain themselves. They called this whole event "dornë," and eventually it was copied by others in Almalinë.

With Aglaen around the Celts so much, it was not long before the Celts developed a great love and respect for Cardë, and soon they worshipped him. Due to their recent close contact with Cardë, they tended to see him not as a fierce deity who demanded absolute admiration at all times, but instead as somewhat of a friend and companion. And so, when the Celts prayed, they kneeled, but they always lifted their chins up until the point where their jawlines were parallel to the ground. They felt that this showed their desire to be divine and holy like Cardë himself. The only time they would lower their heads was to ask for forgiveness for an especially bad deed.

Over the next century, the Celts spread downward from their original settlement in Caethir past the Huivir River as their numbers began to increase. Some moved into the heart of Malendre, and most of those became farmers, thus providing much of the food supply for their fellow Celts. Some others stayed by the Huivir and became river folk. Others went into the Nenedolth Mountains and the Nenedolth Forests. The Nalên Perianaeth was eventually reached, and it became a popular home for the Celts, because so many of them liked Nebrina, the Almalë there. The expansion continued southward into the Ántequë River area. This area also became popular, due to the sheer beauty which abounded there.

And so, after the slow but steady expansion of the Celts, they covered nearly all of the eastern half of Almalinë before they stopped expanding.

During the next 150 years, one Celtic family, the line of Galethrin, became quite wealthy. Due to their large wealth, some of the other Celts naturally began to expect that the family should provide such things as sewage systems for the town and an organized way to purchase things. On a cold, wintery day caused by a particularly bad storm from the north came to Asdhen, the city was ravaged by the storm. In the following days, the Galethrin family supported the Asdhenians with food, shelter, and new clothes. Due to their deeds, many of the Asdhenians decided that the head of the Galethin family, Calsond, would make a good leader for the entire city, and on the 48th day of Bruinen, 163 years after the creation of the Celts, the Republic of Asdhen was founded.

For the next few years, Asdhen was a democracy, but it soon became a republic. A Senate (called Senat by the Asdhenians) of twelve members was elected by the people. Each class (upper, lower, and middle) elected four representatives into office. The lower classes were the farmers, peasants, and servants (who were not slaves and were paid for their work). The middle class consisted of merchants, story-tellers and playwrights, craftsmen, and scribes (who usually kept records for the upper classes, or accounts of historical events). The upper class consisted of the feudal lords, doctors, government officials, and priests.

Although the Senate was actually occupied by members of the upper class, the members who were elected to serve the upper and middle classes certainly upheld their duty. It became a custom that every six months, all the Senators lined up at the steps of the Senate building. The mob crowded around the Senators. Any Senator who was held is disfavor by the crowd would most likely be brutalized by the mob, and perhaps even killed (though there is no record of this ever happening, unless the conditions were particularly terrible during that time, such as when there was a drought or large-scale wars). However, the Senators were somewhat protected by the mob itself. If a citizen attacked a Senator who the others thought had done his duty in a good way, then that citizen would probably be brutalized by the other members of the mob. Also, although the Decton (the highest ruler of the government who worked with the Senate, and a descendant of Galethrin) did not go out to be attacked by the people like his Senators, after the abuse, the Senators did not waste time in "giving the public's regards" to the Decton, often with a good deal of blood included. -- All in all, it was a harsh, brutal way to keep balance, but it served its purpose very well, (and, also, the government officials were afraid to abolish the practice), and so it remained for many centuries.

By the 200th year since the Celts had been created, the Asdhenians were very happy with their government, but they were beginning to become crowded. No one actually wanted to leave the city (except for perhaps some of the lower peasants), and they did not want others to take up the already-crowded space. The Asdhenian Celts were simply waiting for some type of sign to show them that they should begin to expand their territory. On the 34th of Helcoreb in the 209th year since the creation of the Celts, a great storm came from the West. It was black and terrible, and the Sun was blotted out by it entirely. Some people went into chaos and began to riot, but the Asdhenian Police Force (called the Pelther by the Asdhenians) quickly suppressed the riots. Asdhen went into a temporary state of emergency, and all the citizens were ordered to remain inside their homes. After four days, the storm had passed. Although it seemed odd, the Decton used this as a sign that he should begin conquering other areas. He founded a grand army of the Republic, which he named the Cerum (after the Almalë of war, Curumo). By the end of that same year, they began a full-scale invasion of Caethir.

Of course, there was nothing there except for small villages and farmers, and so they easily occupied the area. Next, the Decton decided that he would not occupy the Huivir River area, as it was already the domain of an Almalë. Instead, he made a peaceful treaty that he be allowed to cross the river or use it as a means to reach the sea. Aglaen would not actually agree to the treaty one way or the other, but he feel that his duty to Cardë was to help the Celts, and so when the Asdhenian troops began crossing the river from the sides of Caethir, Aglaen neither supported nor opposed them.

In time, the areas that were conquered increased. A new city was founded, Tarcona, to act as the main military base. After the Expansion, however, it lost much of its military origins, although it did become an important city.

From Tarcona, the Expansion reached both westward and eastward. Malendrë was conquered, and the northern stretch of the Nenedolth Mountains were taken, as well as the Nenedolth Valley.

The southern mountain stretch was not taken: Firstly, the Asdhenians were not daring enough to conquer an area which lay directly in the middle of the domains of two Almalae; and secondly, the area could only be reached by going through the thick forests of the Nenedolth Valley or by crossing the Nalên Perianaeth (which was ruled by an Almalë), and so that area was left untouched.

When the Asdhenians tried to march through the pass between the northern stretch of the Nenedolth Mts. and the sea, they came across strange creatures, some large and some small. At times, in the middle of the night, terrifying screams would be hard in different parts of camp, and the next morning, soldiers would be missing. The army generals tried to continue westward, but the land was becoming scarcer in food, and there were few supplied for water. They eventually reached a point where there was little but sand and sickly bushes that were dried and withered. That night, one army general was attacked by one of the beasts. The next day, the army turned eastward and quickly marched back of Tarcona.

The Expansion then pushed southward, along the edges of the Nalên Perianaeth (which they left alone, due to the Almalë. However, the invaders would often make their homes in those hills. After the Expansion, many of the people who were wanted by the Asdhenian government for crimes would flee to the Nalên Perianaeth, since it was one of the largest areas not conquered by Asdhen that was easily reachable). The invaders made their way along the pass between the hills and the sea. At the end of this pass, they set up another city, Gélgalo. Tarcona was now much to far to easily transport necessities to the soldiers on the front, and this new city served that purpose.

The Expansion then forced its way eastward for a ways, until it reached the eastern banks of the River Ántequë, where they finally stopped (but even then only because an Almalë controlled the whole peninsula that they needed to cross to go west). The generals of the army considered sailing past the area that the Almalë Diana controlled, and a harbor was built near Gélgalo. It was named Pharlan.

The ships sailed around the peninsula that Diana occupied. However, as they went alongside of the land, they began to encounter many islands (which were later named the Banhemar Islands), and they knew that they could go no farther. They docked on the largest island, restocked their food supply, then sailed back for Pharlan.

The Asdhenians by that time controlled the eastern half of Almalinë (with the exception of the domains of the Almalae) was under the rule of Asdhen, but now the soldiers were leaving the far, isolated places and were founding cities and homes. Around the 300th year of the Celts, the Expansion was finally over.