Aslan is the lion and central Christ figure in C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series.
Aslan appears throughout The Chronicles of Narnia as the creator, ruler, and protector of Narnia. Lewis presents him as a powerful but compassionate figure whose authority is expressed through courage, sacrifice, judgment, and restoration. His name is derived from the Turkish word for “lion.”
Aslan’s most famous episode occurs in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He offers himself in Edmund Pevensie’s place and is killed on the Stone Table before returning to life. The scene reflects Christian themes of sacrificial death and resurrection, although the Narnia books are imaginative fiction rather than direct retellings of the Bible.
Aslan is sometimes confused with other major Narnian characters, including Prince Caspian, Mr. Tumnus, and Digory Kirke. Those characters are human or faun figures within the story; Aslan is the recurring lion who stands at the center of Narnia’s moral and cosmic order.