its usually referred to as "awakened"
Look at the druid's/ranger's Animal Companion rules and the rules for Magical Beasts and go form there
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Here's the awaken spell, if you want to use it as a basis.
I'd probably skip the extra 2 HD, and maybe even skip the magical beast Type, if *all* I wanted was a human-intelligence animal, without arbitrary magical beast-type additions (darkvision, for instance) and extra HD and possibly different HD type, BAB, saves, skills, whatever.
Like Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia, I wanna make him as an NPC, but I can't find the talking-lion-with-possible-levels-if-i-feel-like-it template. Is there such a thing?
Take a lion.
Set the Int/Wis/Cha scores to numbers you think appropriate for your NPC concept.
Add class levels as if the lion were any humanoid race with 0 HD.
Add class levels -1 to CR.
This should be a quick and not-so-dirty way to achieve what you want. If you are the DM, you don't necessarily have to follow the same rules the players do. It's commendable to make an effort to adhere as closely as possible, but it isn't necessary.
The Beast Masters article in the current issue of Kobold Quarterly might also be of interest to you ...
Aslan can come back from the dead by himself. How do you stat that?
The Beast Masters article in the current issue of Kobold Quarterly might also be of interest to you ...Aslan can come back from the dead by himself. How do you stat that?
Contingency and raise dead.
Not a power inherent in the character: a power inherent in the ritual magic used when he was slain. That was clear in the book, though probably not in the movie.
Not exactly -- Aslan is, after all, a not-too-subtle analog for Christ, so the resurrection of His mortal form is supposed to be a reflection of His power and glory, yada yada. If you wanted to stat him, he'd be the avatar of a greater god, according to C.S. Lewis.