In the beginning, there was nothing. Then the two gods Cardë and Gacatë came into existence at the same time. They both decided to create their own world. Cardë's world was magnificent and beautiful, but the world of Gacatë was terrifying and dark. When Gacatë asked Cardë for help to repair the horrors that Gacatë had created, Cardë agreed. However, while Cardë was at work, Gacatë invaded Cardë's world. There was a war between the two gods, and in the end Cardë triumphed. Gacatë was exiled.

Cardë then began to rebuild his original creation. He wanted to make a new creature that would rule over all the others. Cardë decided to create servants to him, called Almalae, to help this new creature when Cardë finally created it. The Almalae were sent to Almalinë, where the new people would live. Cardë then created the new people that he had envisioned. They called themselves the Celts. Before Cardë would allow them to go to Almalinë, he asked for a few Celts to stay behind to help Cardë with a secret task. After that, the Celts left for Almalinë.

In Almalinë, the Celts began a new city, Asdhen. Eventually, it became a nation and conquered all of the eastern side of Almalinë.

Meanwhile, Gacatë had returned and had made an army and a grand tower just off the the edge of Almalinë. Cardë saw that the Celts were too far away to reach his tower in time, and so Cardë created Men. This people had two heros, Chazacrá and Rothag. Under the direction of these two men, and eventually with help from several Almalae, a war was waged against Gacatë and his forces. The war ended with the second defeat of Gacatë and the removal of his continent from the face of the world. Gacatë was banished to the timless void past the edge of the universe. However, after the war, a certain being had managed to burrow far beneath the ground of where the continent of Gacatë had lain. It stayed there and did not resurface.

After that, Men moved southward from the frozen lands of the North into the main part of Almalinë. After a while, they encountered the Celts. Due to the hostility that each people had toward one another, a battle broke out. Two Almalae had to come to stop the battle. The Almalae decided that a common language should be created to bridge the gaps between the Celts and Men. Thus, the Almalinian language came into being. In time, peace came, but, along with the peace, the memory of Gacatë diminished.

Far under the ground, the entity that had crawled downward began its ascent back towards the surface of the world.

Three hundred years later, the creature, named Dugorm, reached the surface. Due to this, Cardë decided to bring the Almalae back to his sacred island. The entity that had come up in Gucatë Desert began to revive some creatures that Gacatë had created, and he began to construct a new fortress, Hargul, to operate from. Later, he began raids on two cities that belonged to Celts and Men, but his attacks were never fierce enough to spark them to war. Peace in Almalinë for the most part continued unaffected, and the people were content.