A request from someone on the DS Discord and that is drek fighting daggers, they're a good bit different from what we think of as fighting knives thanks to a lot of issues with their anatomy and ergonomics. But they should be pretty understandable.

Often drek war daggers aren't that different from a really short spear, often they have a short blade of copper, aluminum, stone, bone, fire hardened wood, etc. that is hafted to a long handle, usually between 1-2 1/2 feet long. There are various shapes such as handles that are more like push daggers or weapons that are more like short spears as previously mentioned.

Drekir have short arms, and while strength here is not the biggest issue (they can stab you just fine) reach and dexterity are limited and when facing the flank of an opponent, things like reach and agility are very important. Fighting daggers are often meant to be a smaller type of weapon when compared to spears or belly picks. They are great for reaching vulnerable parts of an opponent, as drekir mostly fight flank to flank (not face to face). Its easy to either attack a dreks back with an icepick grip, stabbing at the lower back, upper back neck and upper leg and its easy, conversely an underhanded stab can reach the belly, ribs, lower legs and boot. So these daggers are often plenty dangerous weapons and can be hard for drekir to block with their own short arms and flexibility.

Drekir, while not always often carry two of these daggers, less to be cool and more because their inability to quickly turn with ease meaning they need a dagger to attack and defend from each flank and to ensure that if an enemy attacks from behind they have a dagger that can reach them. It is also common in many cultures to pair these with various types of should or wrist mounted shields. These vary a lot in materials. Scalehide, scaleather, wood, and wicker composites are all popular. With push dagger styles its more common to see shoulder plates and wrist bucklers are more common on the typical dagger style. But seeing as a drek with a shield is a bad idea in a fight (they lose the ability to fight on one of their flanks) having the weapon and shield on the same arm helps for protecting from attacks.

As for this drek, they are a fighter from the Seattlen. as their region is by no means perfectly peaceful, particularly against southern drekir and sivilão, armored fighting does happen. In addition to two Copper daggers, they are armed with a scaleather helmet (with plastic lenses), scalehide underarmor from thick hunter serpents, and wooden slat armor with a short skirt of bone lamellar on the neck. Armor is not universal and not every warrior is going to armor up for a fight in a tribe (Its a lot of effort and resources to make such armor) So armor is often given to skilled fighters in Seattlen society to allow them safety to do their thing. (usually stabbing Sivilão drãlkir or hostile dens in the area).

Happy stabbing