Aslan is the central divine figure in C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia. He is a great lion who creates, rules, and ultimately restores Narnia.
Aslan first appears in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where the children learn that his return signals a turning point in the conflict with the White Witch. His sacrifice and return in that book form the series’ clearest Christian allegorical pattern, although Lewis objected to treating Narnia as a simple one-to-one code.
The name Aslan comes from the Turkish word for “lion.” Aslan is not merely an animal character: within Narnia he is the son of the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea and the source of moral authority. Other famous Narnian creatures, such as Mr. Tumnus and Reepicheep, are important characters but do not occupy that role.