Aslan is the great lion in C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia.
Aslan is the central figure of the Narnia series and is described as the son of the Emperor-over-the-Sea. He creates and sustains Narnia, guides its inhabitants, and appears at crucial moments in the stories. His name comes from the Turkish word for “lion.”
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Aslan confronts the White Witch and gives his life to save Edmund Pevensie. He returns to life through the Deep Magic, and his resurrection becomes one of the story’s defining events.
Readers often identify Aslan as a Christian allegorical figure, but Lewis said the Narnia books were not straightforward retellings of the Bible. Aslan’s role combines symbolism with his identity as a character inside the fictional world of Narnia.