Ard: A noun, coined by myself (if you're interested, I got it from the name 'Osten Ard', from Tad Williams' Memory Sorrow and Thorn trilogy) and used by a growing number of my friends. It means a world, a universe, a dimension, specific to, say, a book series or a movie or tv show, etcetera. For example, there's the Harry Potter ard. This isn't just one world, cos the Harry Potter books do exist in this solar system and so they have Mars and Neptune and so on as well. But it's a separate place from the X-Men ard. Then there're ards that are totally different, not set on Earth or anywhere like it, such as Rocavi ard (one made up by a friend and I). The Ards Directory is going to be a place where I'll list all the original ards I've worked out, with information on all of them. It'll be mostly just a convenience for myself, really, but I hope other people might be interested in reading about the places I've created.