User blog comment:Silvermaxus253/Team SLVR (work in progress)/@comment-13488655-20131110074819/@comment-19769950-20131110155009

It's basically a sword that is split into separate links held by a chain, but with one flick split up into a whip. Here's a TV Tropes article about it...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhipSword