The Society's foundations come from the Explorers' Guild's richer and more pompous members who decided, after a few years of remaining within the ranks of plebians, that a more elitist and grandiose forum for debate was needed. Led by the more extravagant sons and daughters of an Ironforge noble, the rich and educated split from the Explorers' Guild with little resistance (they weren't much liked within the Guild) and, under the pretense that they were somehow supported by King Magni (which is erroneous), they created the Society.