Beautiful

Thanks :)

What an enchanting creature.

Thank you :3

Very pretty!
Hope you don't mind a little friendly info.
Alicorn would not be the right term. This would be called a Unisus. Alicorn often gets misused thanks to MLP using the term to refer to similar pony characters. Alicorn simply means "Horn of a unicorn" which was used in referring to the horn on male narwhals. Hope that did not come off as offensive! Being a Pegasus and crazed horse nut I studied lots of lore on mythical equine based creatures!

Hey there!

I actually didn't know that! Portmanteaus are always problematic when it comes to words based on Latin or Greek compound words - I think I'm more familiar with the term "pegacorn" but it has similar problems :b It was a commissioned piece for an author's bestiary they want to put together, so it was simply based on what she calls these creatures and how she describes them.

In my early years of D&D and RPG and if you wanted to get more technical! Unisus was used if the sire was a unicorn and dam was a pegasus. A Pegacorn was the result of a pegasus being the sire and dam being a unicorn. Sorta how the crossing with a horse and donkey could either be a mule or hinny depending on parentage. I never heard of Alicorn being refered to them untill the recent MLP craze. Only other time I known that word to be used was in the movie "Legends" back in the 80's I think it was and it was in reference to the unicorns horn the devil needed.

Akchshually, "alicorn" has been used for winged unicorns at least as early as Bearing an Hourglass by Piers Anthony in '84, and not as much for the horn since it was firmly enough established to be a whale's tooth (outside of references to those earlier, sillier times). Though proper unicorns aren't simply horned horses but even-toed ungulates with mixed equine and caprine features, so the proper name for an actual unicorn with wings would be a ronaldus. Furthermore, "Pegasus" is specifically the name of Poseidon's child; the correct term for any other winged horse would be pterippus. And Unisys is the company which designed and made both ENIAC and UNIVAC computers, and oddly enough has roots tracing back to the Remington Arms company. I've trained horses and personally pissed off Pat Parelli for laughing at his blunders, so I'm clearly an authority. Quod erat demonstrandum, neener neener, et cetera.

Just because Piers Anthony used the word incorrectly in 1984 doesn't change the meaning of the true word itself and all the documentation to go with it back as far as 1566 in which it has always meant the actual horn of a unicorn. Much of those references where to the horn, as it was known to be at the time, of the male narwhal as they were called the "unicorns of the sea" by sailors of antiquity. Many alicorns that circulated through the world at time where the narwhals tusk or tooth as it came to latter be recognized. Every modern reference to the word Alicorn prior to that writers incorrect use of it go back as far as 1930. The movie Legend (1985) used the term correctly referring to alicorn as being what the true Latin translation was, the horn of the unicorn. and as stated originally, the word was brought more into the spotlight with the recent MLP reboot. Prior to that in 1974, ten years BEFORE Piers Anthony's Book, D&D came into existence and the geeks of that time knew what the term alicorn meant and did not use it to describe the creature itself. It was then that the many other terms came into use to describe a winged unicorn such as Unisus, Unisis, Pegacorn, Pegasus, Unipeg and simply Winged Unicorn. Yes, there are many variations to the physical attributes to the unicorn as they vary from one culture to another just as there are many variations of what one considers a dragon to look like as we are dealing with fantasy creatures since non truly exist we are left to each persons interpretation of how they perceive them. Some are strictly deer based with no equine attributes what so ever and others are fully equine then you have the many variations in between. I never stated Unisys so not sure why you refereed to that word as yes it obviously was never used in reference to a winged unicorn. So a very simple timeline: Alicorn being used in it's Latin definition "Horn of the Unicorn" and coming from male Narwhals in antiquity was used as far back as 1566. Starting in 1930 much documentation and scientific studies of the alicorn and its uses came to be written and continued as late as 2010. Starting in 1974 D&D geeks came up with many various terms to describe a winged unicorn which did not include Alicorn. In 1984 an author for some reason decided to use it to describe a winged unicorn against its Latin meaning being "Horn of a Unicorn" and then that incorrect use exploded in 2013 due to the MLP reboot and now to many it has come to be believed as meaning such.

Do not cite the Deep Geekery to me, wench! I still have my blue-cover D&D manual around here somewhere.

What Latin is that, then? Let's see, unicorn comes from unicornis (unus "one" cornu "horn"). And then ala "wing" which when combined with cornu gives us...oh dear, "wing-horn." And here are a couple texts from 1930 mentioning alicorns as creatures:
https://books.google.com/books?id=6.....rn&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=-.....=0CGUQ6AEwCDgU

Then we have bicorns and tricorns, which aren't even slightly horselike nor possessing of interesting alchemical properties. And we won't even get into Unicron, 'cause I never really got into Transformers.

I spent a good while railing against referring to email messages as "emails," which I think sounds as ridiculous as referring to postal letters as "mails." Mail is a mass noun, so it only makes sense for the electronic version to be as well. But sometimes you just have to resign yourself to the reality that language is fluid, words change, and life carries on. And there are probably worthier hills on which to die.

Considering we are talking about ALI, not ALA, two completely different words and meanings in Latin. Alicorn is referred to as the Latin word meaning "Horn of the Unicorn". It is NOT an English word derived from two Latin words. Also the Latin word for Wing combined with the Latin word for Horn does give you simply, "Winged Horn" Nothing equine or unicorn about it! The proper term therefore would be "Ala Unicornis" which then would properly give you "Winged Unicorn"

And yay, you found a possible reference in 1930 to it being related to a creature though it does not at all describe the creature so not helping your case there.

Here is a much bigger list of it being referred to as an object with references to its use even further back as 1566, LONG before those using it for a creature.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:alicorn

So again, references to it being a creature are very few and very Modern and I will even give you the obscure reference in 1930 yet those referring to it as part of a Unicorn and/or Narwhal go back as far as 1566. Long before those using it for a creature. Just as Gay once meant something completely different than it does today doesn't mean we should forget the initial meaning regardless of the status quo.

But anyway, en light of you showing your age via immature name calling which greatly diminishes your Appeal to authority, I shall bid my adieu in respect of this artists great work by ending this trifling bickery!