Aslan is the central lion figure in C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books.
Aslan appears throughout The Chronicles of Narnia as the great lion who creates, guides, judges, and restores the world of Narnia. He is introduced in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published Narnia book, where his return is connected with the defeat of the White Witch and the restoration of spring.
Lewis described Aslan as a fictional representation of Jesus Christ, but Aslan is not simply a renamed figure from the Bible. He belongs to the imaginative world of Narnia, where talking animals, kings, witches, and other supernatural beings have their own narrative roles. His name comes from the Turkish word for “lion.”
Readers sometimes confuse Aslan with Prince Caspian, Mr. Tumnus, or Puddleglum, but those are separate characters. Aslan is the lion; Caspian is a human prince, Tumnus is a faun, and Puddleglum is a marsh-wiggle.