Just who is Tagaziel?

A creative creature, blessed with the ability to turn his love of culture and history into a career. I have been working full-time for the past twelve years as a community manager for Curse and FANDOM, managing wikis and developing communities. Currently I’m a social media manager and generalist for Sundog and its upcoming game, Ibru.

I’ve set up wikis from scratch, including seeding hundreds of articles using information extracted from the game’s files, I’ve developed and overhauled existing wikis to bring them to spec, and, of course, I’ve fostered scores of communities, helping them grow and find their footing in the wonderful world of MediaWiki.

Apart from my community work, I’ve also done a significant amount of amateur and professional writing over the past decade. My work thus far includes creating news articles, retrospectives, original writing for mods, scripts, and proofreading, all of it accompanied by impeccable research.

I’ve also dabbled in art, as a way to support the communities under my care. Heraldry and logotypes are my two favorite things to work on. Especially if I have to do meticulous research to actually find the logotype or flag to recreate.

My free time is spent with my family and on activism. I contribute to a variety of causes, including civil rights and mutual aid organizations, as well as women’s rights and LGBTQ+ advocacy groups.

The Woman behind the Cat

I was born in Poland in 1988, on the threshold of Change. Most of my youngest years and adolescence were spent among the ruins of the Eastern Bloc. I was lucky enough to meet the right teachers and make the right friends, eventually entering the VIII Liceum Ogólnokształcące, where I forged lifelong friendships and decided to pursue an education at odds with the school’s focus on hard sciences.

I chose to study law.

I was accepted and began my studies in 2006, at Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań. What followed were five grueling years. I survived them in part due to my circle of proven friends and various extracurricular activities. I was a member of the European Law Students’ Association (highlights include mock trials to introduce prospective law students to the wonderful world of courtroom dramas and observing autopsies) and a founding member of the AURORA Student Cultural Journal (responsible for DTP, from gathering materials to preparing them for print).

The most important factor, however, was my wife. A fellow student of law, we married a year after a seemingly random meeting and became inseparable. She completed her degree in 2010, a year ahead of schedule. I graduated in 2011, with a thesis in legal history.

Titled Evolution of the Retaliation against the Volksdeutsche between 1944 and 1950, it focused on the darkest period in Polish history. Under Nazi occupation, Poznań was at the center of one of the most brutal and fanatical Nazi occupations in Europe, and one of the most intensely Germanized territories in the Reich. It is based on my research of cases preserved in the State Archive in Poznań. Many of these were tragic, offering a glimpse into the impossible life of Poles under the Nazi regime, trapped between the brutality of the occupiers and the heroic obligations of a nation faced with extinction.

The thesis was written under prof. Andrzej Gulczyński. The time spent researching, writing, and discussing it remains one of my favorite memories from university.

After graduation, I joined my wife in Germany, where she pursued a doctorate at Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen. As an émigré, my options to continue a career in law were severely limited. I decided to become a freelancer, working as a content writer and marketer for several years, before joining Curse as a wiki manager.

My work for Curse eventually blossomed into a rewarding, decade-long career. It allowed me to meet new people, hone my skills, and explore strange new properties and franchises. The stability it provided also gave me an opportunity to branch out further into writing and other creative affairs.

Alright, but what’s a Tagaziel?

Tagaziel is a name I have chosen for myself years ago, after experimenting with dozens of other pseudonyms, nicknames, callsigns, and other handles. It represents me, my chosen avatar, and everything that was created around that creature.

It’s also a unique name to identify all of my works fairly reliably.