The Magiontology Society

The Magiontology Society is a secret society, dedicated to the protection and study of magical life and history. This includes magions and magic-folk, but the bulk of the Society activities is dedicated to magions since magic-folk are both more rare and more capable of taking care of themselves. For the most part, the Society's agents are tasked with information collection, population surveys of endangered magions, followups on magion-human encounters and the like. However, when the need arises, they also serve as a rescue team for magions that were hurt or are in danger, and for the occasional human who gets over their head.

Structure

The Society is a small organization, but it has reach all over the world, in any place magions live. The core of the Society are its agents, who are dedicated to its mission on full time basis. However, the number on agents is very limited, and therefore the Society often relies on the aid of its associates: trusted members who collect and convey information, and sometimes support the agents in specific missions. Last but not least are the members of the society, who are usually new to magiontology and join to learn more about it.
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History

The Magiontology Society in its current incarnation is quite new, but it was built on a long lasting network of magions, magical and non-magical folk that has been active in some form for centuries. For most of this history, humans were kept away for safety reasons. After all, even human cultures that did not persecute magic and magic users tended to treat magic with a level of distrust. It was only natural that magions would return this mistrust. The former incarnation of the Magiontology Society, known as the Magiotology Circle (1889-1892), was the biggest human-magion collaboration in modern times, perhaps even in history, and proved near disastrous. It took over a century for magions to be wiling to allow humans into their communities.¹
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The Archives

The Magiontology Archives were officially established in 1985, and thus predate the Magiontology Society, but they are now in the charge of the Society. The archives are organized into sub-sections, incduling the Magion Archives, where files of different magion species are kept, and the Magical History Archives, that keep data and records of encounters and events connected to magical beings and life. The archives also include special collections of magiontological studies, pened by the few specialists of the field, as well as familial records and grimoire of magic-folk, some of which are the only remains of now lost lineages.
See the Magion Archives and the Magical History Archives for more.

¹ It should be noted that this is a generalization, and there have always been exeptions. There are few, but noted, cases of trusted humans over the centuries, including familial lines that passed the secret of magions existance from parent to child for centuries.