What is an Alicorn?
All I know about Alicorns is that they require the Sky Palace.
I know what a Unicorn is. I know a little about what its role in the game is (to date). But I don't really know anything about Alicorns. Are Alicorns animals, like Unicorns? But what is an Alicorn (in Kittens game)?
I checked on the wiki and there a search for "alicorn" yields nothing. I checked with google and it seems like "alicorn" can be used to mean just the horn, a unicorn with no horn, or a unicorn with wings. Could someone please explain what the role of Alicorns are in Kittens game?
Best Answer
An Alicorn is exactly that -- a winged unicorn.
I can cite both Wiktionary (Etymology 2) and the My Little Pony Wikia.
I leave it as an excercise to the reader as to which is the more trustworthy source!
As to the game itself -- they are simply another resource you can obtain, like any other number of creatures and/or materials. Billy Mailman's answer here goes into the nitty-gritty of Unicorns and Alicorns, but the bottom line is that presently, you can acquire them (and sacrifice them for Time Crystals), but they aren't good for much else.
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What is the difference between an alicorn and a unicorn?
The Unicorn has been used to depict true rarity, innocence, and light whilst the Alicorn has been used for ages now to depict unrealistic beliefs, greed, and gluttony, thus propagating fraud, anarchy, and darkness.What does alicorn mean?
Origins. The Achaemenid Assyrians made Alicorns a representation of evil and darkness (and only occaisionally light) on their engraved seals.Is a alicorn real?
The alicorn never existed as such; it was most often narwhal teeth that were known as "unicorn horns".Why is it called alicorn?
In some literature and media, it has been referred to as an alicorn, a Latin word for the horn of a unicorn, especially in alchemical texts, or as a pegacorn, a portmanteau of pegasus and unicorn.Mlp Alicorns Explained
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