Aslan is the central wise ruler and creator figure in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. He is a talking lion who appears throughout the seven-book series and serves as Narnia’s principal moral authority.
Aslan is especially prominent in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where he confronts the White Witch and gives his life to save Edmund Pevensie. He returns to life afterward, an event that is central to the novel’s Christian symbolism.
Lewis described Narnia as a world in which Christian ideas could be explored through story rather than direct theological argument. Aslan is commonly understood as a fictional figure who reflects aspects of Jesus Christ, although the Narnia books remain imaginative fantasy rather than straightforward retellings of the Gospels.
Aslan’s name is derived from the Turkish word for “lion.” He also appears in the final Narnia book, The Last Battle.