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Title: What is Arya's weapon design?
Question: In season 8 episode 1, Arya asks Gendry to forge her a dragonglass weapon (which we can see drawn).  What is the purpose of this weapon?

Answers:
sents: text: Some info (mostly speculation) is available in this article : From Dunne’s comments and those schematics, this looks to be a spear-like weapon that can unscrew into being two short-range stabbing weapons as well.
text: Essentially, a double-ended spear that can also act as two daggers.
text: One tip is definitely dragonglass—we can tell that from Arya’s schematics.
text: Is the other end using her Valyrian steel dagger blade?
text: Is that flame?
text: Just an ornate handle?
text: Unlikely just a handle—that doesn’t seem like Arya’s style.
text: We’ve actually probably already seen Arya using this weapon in a few brief shots from the Season 8 trailer.
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/33910/Federico
score: 14
sents: text: Tommy Dunne, the weapons master for Game of Thrones , has the following to say on what is almost certainly the weapon Arya asks Gendry to make:
text: In a recent interview with Vanity Fair’s “Still Watching” podcast, Thrones weapons master Tommy Dunne teased what is very likely this new blade: “There is one creation in Season 8 that is absolutely phenomenal.
text: It’ll be a showstopper.
text: That was great to finish.
text: It was great to make, great to design in that it was able to be reverse-engineered and made into two different items.”
text: Vanity Fair, Game of Thrones:
text: Gendry Is Making Arya a “Showstopper” Weapon As of now we don't know what it actually is, and all we have to go off is the schematic and Dunne's comments.
text: That said the schematic shows two pieces that fit together and can come apart with one end being tipped in dragonglass so it is likely a long weapon that can be split into two dagger like weapons.
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/45378/TheLethalCarrot
score: 14
sents: text: Everybody seems to assume it's a spear - it's not, primarily, and she doesn't seem to use it as such most of the time.
text: Of course, it's sharp at both ends so you can poke it at people [
text: using dragon glass so would be effective against wights as well as humans], but that's not really how we see her use it.
text: Her weapon is basically the stick she learned to use so well fighting the waif in Bravos - with two pointy ends to stick them with as well.
text: This is all her years of training being put to use.
text: She used it to great effect on top of Winterfell's walls...
text: She split it in half when she first moved indoors, into more restricted space, but mainly she still wielded it like her stick.
text: I'd say ninja-style, even though that's not a discipline that exists in this world.
text: Why it was splittable
text: I'm not really sure about.
text: She split it when she went indoors, very briefly, but the next time we see her she's re-assembled it.
text: I checked some timings...
text: She actually loses the 'posh stick' as she dives over some wights down a flight of stairs, and is not seen again with it.
text: [cross-ref to https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/100243/25773 with gif]
text: She doesn't have it when she jumps off the parapet onto the sloped roof.
text: When we next see her again indoors, she picks up a dragon glass dagger from the floor behind some fallen furniture.
text: She keeps this right through the library scene & the chase afterwards.
text: She loses that when she's rescued by Dondarrion.
text: So she splits the stick for an entire 10 seconds & that's it.
text: All that for 10 seconds
text: ;-)
text: She has the stick from 39:40, splits it at 40:00
text: She goes out of shot with it still split at 40:11 & the next time we see her
text: it's back together again at 40:18.
text: I first thought it split to be a long stick & a dagger, but it does split into two unequal sizes.
text: Splitting to a dagger didn't quite make sense to me, as she already was known to be carrying a Valyrian steel dagger; the one originally used on the attempt on Bran's life... ...and used, rather appropriately in the end, to kill the Night King and save Bran.
text: From comments -
text: In the godswood she doesn't have the stick at all [see timings above]
text: she has only the Valyrian steel dagger, which she drops from one hand and catches in the other.
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/25773/Tetsujin
score: 9
sents: text: While i cannot be certain, it appears it may be an Atl-atl or a Spear
text: Thrower
text: The user holders on end using a lever or rope to then propel the spear faster and further.
text: the spear itself is shorter and expendable so
text: perhaps that is what she wants.
text: the design doesn't look quite right for one but it looks similar at least I'll be honest its a bit of a stretch
text: but it was what first came to my mind when i saw it
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/63700/Blade Wraith
score: 8
sents: text: It's a Dragonglass Spear according to the HBO - Making Game of Thrones website.
text: As of S08E03, "The Long Night", it is shown to be a spear with a dragonglass head at both ends and can be separated in the middle to be two shorter spears.
answer_details: author: movies.stackexchange.com/users/1006/galacticninja
score: 8

Summary of the answers:
Arya's weapon in GOT season 8 episode 1 is essentially, a double-ended spear that can also act as two daggers,one tip is definitely dragonglass.
Essentially, a double-ended spear that can also act as two daggers. One tip is definitely dragonglass.