Aslan is the central talking lion in C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books. He is the ruler and creator figure associated with Narnia and appears throughout the series as its most powerful and morally significant character.
Aslan first appears in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where the children hear about him before meeting him. His return helps end the White Witch’s winter rule. In that book, Lewis presents a sacrificial death and resurrection sequence involving Aslan, a major reason readers often discuss the character in Christian allegorical terms.
Lewis resisted reducing the Narnia stories to simple one-to-one allegory. He described Aslan as a fictional embodiment of what Christ might be like in another world, rather than as a coded version of every detail in the New Testament.
The name is derived from the Turkish word for “lion.” Aslan remains present or influential across all seven Chronicles of Narnia books.