Aslan represents the central Christ figure in C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books.
Aslan is the great lion who rules or guides Narnia and appears throughout The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis described him as an invented representation of Christ rather than a direct allegorical code in which every character has only one fixed meaning. Aslan’s role includes creation, judgment, sacrifice, resurrection, and final restoration.
His most famous scene occurs in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, when he gives his life on the Stone Table in place of Edmund Pevensie and later returns to life. That episode parallels Christian ideas about substitution and resurrection, while remaining part of the novel’s fantasy narrative. Readers sometimes confuse Aslan with Caspian, a human king, or with Rilian, Caspian’s son. Aslan is neither a human ruler nor merely a talking animal; he is Narnia’s creator and ultimate authority.