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Just a quick CRT of the Narnia pages for Aslan and the Emperor Beyond the Sea
At the end of the last battle, the protagonists enter Aslan’s Country and see the following quotes
“Lucy looked hard at the garden and saw that it was not really a garden at all but a whole world, with its own rivers and woods and sea and mountains. But they were not strange: she knew them all. "I see," she said. "This is still Narnia, and, more real and more beau- tiful than the Narnia down below, just as it was more real and more beautiful than the Narnia outside the Stable door! I see... world within world, Narnia within Narnia...."
"Yes," said Mr. Tumnus, "like an onion: except that as you continue to go in and in, each circle is larger than the last."
And Lucy looked this way and that and soon found that a new and beautiful thing had happened to her. Whatever she looked at, however far away it might be, once she had fixed her eyes steadily on it, became quite clear and close as if she were looking through a tele- scope. She could see the whole southern desert and beyond it the great city of Tashbaan: to eastward she could see Cair Paravel on the edge of the sea and the very window of the room that had once been her own. And far out to sea she could discover the islands, island after island to the end of the world, and, beyond the end, the huge mountain which they had called Aslan's country. But now she saw that it was part of a great chain of mountains which ringed round the whole world. In front of her it seemed to come quite close. Then she looked to her left and saw what she took to be a great bank of brightly- coloured cloud, cut off from them by a gap. But she looked harder and saw that it was not a cloud at all but a real land. And when she had fixed her eyes on one particular spot of it, she at once cried out, "Peter! Edmund! Come and look! Come quickly." And they came and looked, for their eyes also had become like hers.
"Why!" exclaimed Peter. "It's England. And that's the house itself — Professor Kirk's old home in the country where all our adventures began!"
"I thought that house had been destroyed," said Edmund.
"So it was," said the Faun. "But you are now looking at the England within England, the real England just as this is the real Narnia. And in that inner England no good thing is destroyed."
Suddenly they shifted their eyes to another spot, and then Peter and Edmund and Lucy gasped with amazement and shouted out and began waving: for there they saw their own father and mother, waving back at them across the great, deep valley.”
"That is easy," said Mr. Tumnus. "That country and this country — all the real countries — are only spurs jutting out from the great moun- tains of Aslan. We have only to walk along the ridge, upward and inward, till it joins on. And listen! There is King Frank's horn: we must all go up."
When they enter the country when the world ends, it is “the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”
Tldr of it is that Aslan’s Country is beyond the countless worlds in the Wood Between Worlds and that everything beforehand was merely a spur of Aslan’s country, which contains the “real“ versions of all the worlds and has endless layers which are all greater and more real tHan the last, with everything that happened in their lives before Aslan’s Country merely being the title and cover page of a story with infinite chapters greater than the previous one in comparison. This would make Aslan High 1-B and The Emperor Beyond the Sea Low 1-A the way we accept the scaling now
However, in regards to Aslan, it is likely that this Aslan would require another key. Upon entering his country, it is noted that Aslan “no longer looked to them like a lion”, and Aslan himself has stated that Aslan is only one name he is known by: “But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason you were brought into Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you might know me better there."
Additionally, according to word of god Aslan is not a symbol for Jesus but rather Jesus as he incarnates in Narnia. To quote: “if Aslan represented the immaterial Deity in the same way in which Giant Despair [a character in The Pilgrim's Progress] represents despair, he would be an allegorical figure. In reality however he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, 'What might Christ become like, if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?' This is not allegory at all.”
Since it’s basically all but stated that Aslan is only his Narnia incarnation, a key as “Aslan the Lion“ would probably be fine and stay at low 2-C. A true form key would probably be good for his existence in Aslan’s country
At the end of the last battle, the protagonists enter Aslan’s Country and see the following quotes
“Lucy looked hard at the garden and saw that it was not really a garden at all but a whole world, with its own rivers and woods and sea and mountains. But they were not strange: she knew them all. "I see," she said. "This is still Narnia, and, more real and more beau- tiful than the Narnia down below, just as it was more real and more beautiful than the Narnia outside the Stable door! I see... world within world, Narnia within Narnia...."
"Yes," said Mr. Tumnus, "like an onion: except that as you continue to go in and in, each circle is larger than the last."
And Lucy looked this way and that and soon found that a new and beautiful thing had happened to her. Whatever she looked at, however far away it might be, once she had fixed her eyes steadily on it, became quite clear and close as if she were looking through a tele- scope. She could see the whole southern desert and beyond it the great city of Tashbaan: to eastward she could see Cair Paravel on the edge of the sea and the very window of the room that had once been her own. And far out to sea she could discover the islands, island after island to the end of the world, and, beyond the end, the huge mountain which they had called Aslan's country. But now she saw that it was part of a great chain of mountains which ringed round the whole world. In front of her it seemed to come quite close. Then she looked to her left and saw what she took to be a great bank of brightly- coloured cloud, cut off from them by a gap. But she looked harder and saw that it was not a cloud at all but a real land. And when she had fixed her eyes on one particular spot of it, she at once cried out, "Peter! Edmund! Come and look! Come quickly." And they came and looked, for their eyes also had become like hers.
"Why!" exclaimed Peter. "It's England. And that's the house itself — Professor Kirk's old home in the country where all our adventures began!"
"I thought that house had been destroyed," said Edmund.
"So it was," said the Faun. "But you are now looking at the England within England, the real England just as this is the real Narnia. And in that inner England no good thing is destroyed."
Suddenly they shifted their eyes to another spot, and then Peter and Edmund and Lucy gasped with amazement and shouted out and began waving: for there they saw their own father and mother, waving back at them across the great, deep valley.”
"That is easy," said Mr. Tumnus. "That country and this country — all the real countries — are only spurs jutting out from the great moun- tains of Aslan. We have only to walk along the ridge, upward and inward, till it joins on. And listen! There is King Frank's horn: we must all go up."
When they enter the country when the world ends, it is “the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”
Tldr of it is that Aslan’s Country is beyond the countless worlds in the Wood Between Worlds and that everything beforehand was merely a spur of Aslan’s country, which contains the “real“ versions of all the worlds and has endless layers which are all greater and more real tHan the last, with everything that happened in their lives before Aslan’s Country merely being the title and cover page of a story with infinite chapters greater than the previous one in comparison. This would make Aslan High 1-B and The Emperor Beyond the Sea Low 1-A the way we accept the scaling now
However, in regards to Aslan, it is likely that this Aslan would require another key. Upon entering his country, it is noted that Aslan “no longer looked to them like a lion”, and Aslan himself has stated that Aslan is only one name he is known by: “But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason you were brought into Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you might know me better there."
Additionally, according to word of god Aslan is not a symbol for Jesus but rather Jesus as he incarnates in Narnia. To quote: “if Aslan represented the immaterial Deity in the same way in which Giant Despair [a character in The Pilgrim's Progress] represents despair, he would be an allegorical figure. In reality however he is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, 'What might Christ become like, if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?' This is not allegory at all.”
Since it’s basically all but stated that Aslan is only his Narnia incarnation, a key as “Aslan the Lion“ would probably be fine and stay at low 2-C. A true form key would probably be good for his existence in Aslan’s country
