I know its too late and you already settled on the animation part and said you were done but i just wanted to say that no man no matter how string could hold up a flail like that and have it bounce so easily at that size (unless of course its a game and anything is possible or its stylistic) but i think that (although it would take way more work in the long run) it would look really cool for it to drag ont the ground. Also be careful with the facial hair, the one of the swordsman looks a bit like hitler
with the short little square stache (sorry i had to say it) and the archer looks like a goat a bit with the nose being the flat part and the line vertically being the mouth.
