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?

Solution 1:

In Kittens game Alicorns are winged unicorns from the Unicorn dimension that are capable of controlling time.

You can banish them to the Crimsonmoon, a sattelite of Cath, to gather their magical chronomancy energy in a form of Time Crystals

Solution 2:

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.