Exordium may refer to: Exordium (book series), a science fiction book series written by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge Exordium (EP), by Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever. Exordium (rhetoric), the introductory section of a discourse in Western classical rhetoric Exordium clause, the first paragraph or sentence in a (last) will and testament "Exordium: The Beginning Of a Web", opening section of Delusion of the Fury by Harry Partch