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| - The Village Elder of Arroyo was in the opening CGI, and was the first character with an animated talking head storytelling sequence in Fallout 2. The Village Elder's dust and dung mysticism in the introductory CGI was part of the barrage of storytelling content that greeted the player at the beginning of the game. Along with other elements, including the breezy opening song, Satchmo's Kiss to Build a Dream On, the wide-eyed naiivete of the Vault instruction video, the Enclave Vault massacre animation, and fellow voice actor Ron Perlman's (WP) dour and foreboding narration, the CGI (at that time, known as FMVs, or Full Motion Video), set the stage for the game stylistically as a rollercoaster of contrasts. In contrast, her talking head sequence was crucial to giving the player a family identity and purpose to bond with very early in the game. Her pivotal character, the solitary power of the Planes Ravel Puzzlewell, in Planescape:Torment, was the driving force in the Sigil half of the game, and a storytelling link between Sigil and Outer Planes She appeared as Matier in Devil May Cry 2 and The Sorceress in Spyro: Year of the Dragon. Her voice is in demand in advertising, after her "Something Wicked This Way Comes" voiceover in the LexusGS300 campaign led to promotions such as "Rescue Me," "Lady in the Water," "Cinderella III," "Tinkerbelle," "Merlin," "The X-Files," and others, and advertising for Bell South, Publix, Honeybaked Ham, and Dreyers Ice Cream
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