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This is actually a composite of several screenshots from various parts of the video game "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind" and its expansion, "The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal."

In the foreground is the Sharmat, Dagoth Ur, the main antagonist and Devil of the Tribunal religion in the game. In the middle are the three Man-Gods, the triune godhead of Almalexia (left), Sotha Sil (right), and Vivec (center), who are referred to collectively as Almsivi. Looming above them all is Akulakhan, the Second Numidium, ready to sweep Masser and Secunda from their celestial orbits.

The text is written in Daedric, and is from the lost prophecy, The Stranger, obtained in the game from the Dissident Priests of Holamayan:

When earth is sundered and skies choked back
and Sleepers serve the Seven Curses
to the hearth there comes a Stranger
journeyed far 'neath Moon and Star

Though stark-born to sire uncertain
his aspect marks his certain fate
wicked stalk him, righteous curse him
prophets speak, but all deny.

Many trials make manifest
the Stranger's fate, the Curse's Bane.
Many touch-stones try the Stranger.
Many fall, but one remains.

The prophecy was purposefully lost, as it suggests that the Nerevarine (the reincarnation of the sainted hero Indoril Nerevar) is an Outlander, a person not born and raised within Morrowind's Dunmer community.

Description
This is actually a composite of several screenshots from various parts of the video game "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind" and its expansion, "The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal."

In the foreground is the Sharmat, Dagoth Ur, the main antagonist and Devil of the Tribunal religion in the game. In the middle are the three Man-Gods, the triune godhead of Almalexia (left), Sotha Sil (right), and Vivec (center), who are referred to collectively as Almsivi. Looming above them all is Akulakhan, the Second Numidium, ready to sweep Masser and Secunda from their celestial orbits.

The text is written in Daedric, and is from the lost prophecy, The Stranger, obtained in the game from the Dissident Priests of Holamayan:

When earth is sundered and skies choked back
and Sleepers serve the Seven Curses
to the hearth there comes a Stranger
journeyed far 'neath Moon and Star

Though stark-born to sire uncertain
his aspect marks his certain fate
wicked stalk him, righteous curse him
prophets speak, but all deny.

Many trials make manifest
the Stranger's fate, the Curse's Bane.
Many touch-stones try the Stranger.
Many fall, but one remains.

The prophecy was purposefully lost, as it suggests that the Nerevarine (the reincarnation of the sainted hero Indoril Nerevar) is an Outlander, a person not born and raised within Morrowind's Dunmer community.