Dual Wielding - it sounds like both 1H weapons need to be modified through crafting first?

Nerror

If you go to exactly the 2 hour mark in the VOD:

Steven says this:

However, the way we're servicing dual weapons is that they will occupy your main hand and off-hand, and you will have a specific recipe which includes the previously completed one-handed weapons that are intending to be dual'ed.

So my take from that is that you can't just grab any two 1H weapons and start dual-wielding them. You need to see a crafter first.

This can go two ways:

1. Each individual weapon simply gets the option to be dual wielded after the crafter modifies it. I wonder if there are any stat changes with that? Because otherwise, why the need to modify them in the first place?
2. Or, both weapons you want to dual wield get combined into a locked pair, essentially functioning as one item in inventory, but once equipped takes up both hands the same way a 2H weapon does.

If they go with the second option, can they be separated again? If you want to swap one of the weapons? And what about enchanting? Does that apply to the pair or do you pick which weapon to enchant? And if they can be separated again, do they both just lose the enchantment level?

I think the first option is the simpler method, but it makes me wonder about the need to craft or use that recipe on the intended weapons, so I think the second option is quite likely as well.

Thoughts?

Percimes

If to dual wield we need a recipe to combine our weapons into one set, the same should apply to shield and weapon, it's also a set. That's how contrived this concept is.

Seriously, the only items that should come in joint pairs are footwear and hand wearable. Boots and gloves. And for all that is holy, no mismatching socks!