This artwork is from the game Fire Emblem: Fates. This is probably one of my favorite game franchises in terms of symbolism and artwork, especially this particular piece. In this game you are a main character that is raised by the Nohr family (on the left side) only to find out that the nation you're at war with (Hoshido, on the right) is your true family. The first thing most people would see is the sky: the left being dusk and the right being dawn. This doesn't exactly represent good and evil, but the ambiguous nature of it. Nohr is not entirely evil, and Hoshido is not as pure as people think it is in the beginning. Another thing that people might not notice is the parallels with each side. If you look from the ends and go inward you will notice that they are symbolizing that each side has the same composition of people in terms of personality: from the loyal knight to the role model older brother. Each circle in the background represents a "fate" to be decided on the player, and a third one that has not been revealed yet (until recently). I will leave it at this but I can talk about this picture all day if I wanted to.
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