Aslan is the fictional lion created by C.S. Lewis for the Chronicles of Narnia.
He is the central benevolent figure in the series and is portrayed as the creator and ruler of Narnia. Aslan appears as a powerful talking lion whose authority is treated as greater than that of any human monarch or magical creature.
The character is widely understood as carrying Christian symbolism, especially through his sacrifice and return in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Lewis did not present Narnia as a simple coded retelling of the Bible; instead, he used a separate world in which Christian ideas could be imagined through different characters and events.
Aslan’s name is derived from the Turkish word for “lion.” The character is sometimes confused with Tash, a destructive figure in The Last Battle, but the two represent opposing forces within the series.