Aslan is the fictional lion who serves as the central Christ figure in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. He is the creator and true king of Narnia, appearing throughout the seven-book series as a guide, judge, and redeemer.
Lewis based Aslan’s role on Christian themes, particularly sacrifice, resurrection, authority, and restoration. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Aslan gives his life to save Edmund, then returns to life in a scene that echoes the Christian Gospel narrative.
Aslan is not simply a symbolic label replacing Jesus in a one-to-one retelling. Lewis described the Narnia stories as imaginative explorations of Christian ideas in a different world. The name comes from the Turkish word for “lion,” a detail that can be confused with the character’s English title.