User blog comment:The Milkman/Hearthfire Announcement: My Take/@comment-4057437-20120831031237/@comment-3492791-20120831034238

Whips are weapons? That would be terrible, simply terrible. What you're thinking of are flails.

A whip would be completly usless against the first person you ran into with armor. A flail on the otherhand, it's like a mace on a chain. You're not likely to find many fully intact skulls after havin' a go with one of those...