Aslan is the lion-like character who represents a central force for good in C.S. Lewis’s Narnia. He appears throughout The Chronicles of Narnia as a powerful guide, ruler, and protector.
Aslan is introduced in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where his return signals the weakening of the White Witch’s winter rule. The narrative gives him authority over Narnia and associates him with sacrifice, restoration, and renewal.
Lewis described Aslan as a fictional character rather than simply assigning him a one-to-one allegorical label. Nevertheless, readers and scholars commonly discuss Christian symbolism in Aslan’s death and resurrection-like return in the first published Narnia book.
Aslan’s name comes from the Turkish word for “lion.” In the novels, he is not merely an ordinary animal: he is the son of the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea and the creator of Narnia in its origin story.