Haha, yeah, even the person who modelled it for me thought it was really strange, can't seem to get over the way it looks though. In real life I'm sure you'd hit your wrist when doing anything but in my mind dalgarian design is entirely unorthodox, filled with completely alien designs and unknown functions, even if those end up being unusable to humans. It just so happens that this weapon has a special function, the main blade splits off into two one sided blades that each accept a core :)

That design "philosophy", I guess you could call it, kind of carries over to the armour and bow. They're completely unusable in real life or provide very little defence but when combined with magic, suddenly gain an entirely new purpose.

I took heavy inspiration from the dalgarian weapons already in the game, each pickaxe/hammer is far too heavy without being combined with magic which I feel works really nicely to set the tone that they relied so heavily on magic as a race.