The Red Spider Lily blooms for a thousand years, then withers for a thousand years. Its flowers and leaves are forever out of step, never meeting in any lifetime.
The Red Spider Lily blooms only along the road to the underworld, beside the River of Three Crossings in the realm of the dead. Its brilliant red blossoms, vivid as blood, guide souls on their way.
When a soul crosses the River of Forgetfulness, it forgets everything from its life before. All that once happened remains on the other shore, blooming into enchanting flowers.
Countless lives lead to hell. Across the River of Forgetfulness, the far shore is covered in Red Spider Lilies, like fire, like blood, like blazing flowers, like the despair of a love that can never be fulfilled.
It has flowers but no leaves, and is the only flower in the underworld, bearing witness to love between those destined to meet but not to be together.
When the flowers bloom, there are no leaves; when the leaves grow, the flowers are gone. Since they share a single stem, their bond must surely be written in fate. Yet they have no chance to meet. They should have been deeply in love, but their bond bears no fruit, and they cannot be together.
