Aslan is the great lion who guides the central stories of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series. He is the son of the Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea and is presented as Narnia’s creator, king, and ultimate source of authority.
Aslan appears in all seven Narnia books, although his role and the amount of time he spends on the page vary. He helps characters understand courage, loyalty, repentance, and moral responsibility. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, he gives his life in exchange for Edmund’s and returns to life through the deeper magic.
Lewis said that Aslan was not a straightforward allegorical code for one character in every scene, but readers widely recognize Christian parallels in the figure. Tumnus is the faun who first meets Lucy, Puddleglum is a Marsh-wiggle in The Silver Chair, and Rilian is a prince in that same book.