Aslan is the great lion and creator of the world of Narnia in C.S. Lewis’s series.
Aslan appears throughout The Chronicles of Narnia as a powerful, wise, and compassionate figure. He creates Narnia through song in The Magician’s Nephew, the earliest story in the series’ internal chronology, and he guides or assists the characters during several major conflicts.
The character is widely understood as a Christian allegorical figure, although Lewis described the Narnia books as imaginative fiction rather than a simple code in which every detail has only one direct equivalent. Aslan’s death and return in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe are especially associated with Christian themes.
Aslan is not a human ruler such as Caspian, nor is he a talking animal who merely lives in Narnia. His role is distinctive: he is presented as the world’s creator and its central spiritual authority.