Juhani Otso Berg

2014-12-13T04:19:01Z

24.36.134.1: Changed spelling of Ilena/Elina's name to match what's shown on AC Rogue subtitles

{{Era|ACB|ACR|ACRG|Brahman|ACI|Abstergo|Templars}}
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{{Quote|The modern day Assassins are weak. It is only a matter of time before I catch the last of them, and kill them. But it is not enough for them to die. I want them to know how weak they truly are, and I want everyone to see them suffer. So on the day they finally meet me, they will welcome the death I offer them.|Juhani Otso Berg, 2014.|Assassin's Creed: Rogue}}
{{Character Infobox
|name = Juhani Otso Berg
|image = ACI Familyman.jpg
|birth = 17 June 1985 {{Wiki|Mikkeli}}, {{Wiki|Finland}}
|affiliates = {{Wiki|Utti Jaeger Regiment}} [[Abstergo Industries]] [[Templars]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' ''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' ''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brahman]]'' ''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''
|voice = [[Andreas Apergis]]}}
'''Juhani Otso Berg''' (born 1985) is a former member of the {{Wiki|Finland|Finnish}} {{Wiki|Utti Jaeger Regiment|Special Forces}}, and by 2012, a high-ranking agent of the Operations Division of [[Abstergo Industries]]. Later, in December of that year, Berg was inducted into the [[Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order|Inner Sanctum]] of the [[Templars|Templar Order]].

==Biography==
===Early life===
Before joining the Templars, Juhani was a part of the Utti Jaeger Regiment, which composed Finland's special forces. However, around 2010, he opted to become a [[Mercenaries|mercenary]], believing the pay would be better than that of the Jaeger's – Juhani needed the money to afford cystic fibrosis treatments for his newborn daughter, [[Ilena Berg|Elina]].

One night, an Abstergo team headed by Dr. [[Warren Vidic]] broke into Berg's home and apprehended him. As Berg watched, Vidic gave Elina Abstergo-brand medication that he promised would help to cure her condition, with the promise of more doses if Juhani would join him.

Faced with a solution to his daughter's illness, Berg agreed, with one condition – to eliminate the one who had caused Elina to wake up and cry. Vidic granted it, and Berg ruthlessly killed the Abstergo agent.

===Rise as a Templar===
[[File:ACR Vidic Recruits.png|thumb|250px|left|Warren Vidic briefing Juhani and other second stage operatives]]
On 12 October 2012, Berg was briefed alongside several other Abstergo operatives who had impressed Vidic enough to begin training in the [[Assassin's Creed: Revelations|second stage]] of their [[Animi Training Program]]. Warren promised Juhani and the other operatives greater power, wealth, and information on the Templars if they succeeded, but also warned that there was no backing out from that point.

On 28 October, Berg had interested his superiors within Abstergo with his training in the [[Animus]], enough to be promoted within the ranks of the Templar Order.<ref name="ACI">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' - ''The Desmond Files''</ref><ref name="ACR">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref>

In an agent evaluation report conducted on 8 November, [[Ctibor Hašek]] identified Berg as a potential candidate for the [[Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order|Inner Sanctum]], noting him as an obedient, loyal agent who was dedicated to the Templar cause. However, Hašek was concerned that Juhani's daughter could be a weakness.

On 16 November, Berg was sent to [[New York City|New York]] by [[Laetitia England]], in order to investigate a cyber-security breach related to [[Pieces of Eden|artifacts]] that Abstergo was tracking, one of which was located in a Manhattan penthouse.

There, he found [[Daniel Cross]], who had escaped the [[Philadelphia]] facility the previous day and had been subsequently injured during a confrontation with the [[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Desmond Miles]]. Though Berg was attacked by Daniel, who apparently suffered another attack of the [[Bleeding Effect]], he was able to neutralize Cross and returned him to Abstergo. Nine days later, in {{Wiki|Helsinki}}, Finland, Juhani was seen spending time with his daughter.<ref name="ACI"/>

===Raid in Florence===
On 28 November 2012, after an attack on the Abstergo campus by the Assassin [[Harlan T. Cunningham]] killed four Abstergo hackers and destroyed servers, Berg tailed Cunningham on the regional road SR2 in [[Italy]]. From there, Berg called his superiors and convinced them to allow him to follow the Assassin back to his base, instead of killing Harlan.

Successfully, Juhani tracked Cunningham to an Assassin base in [[Florence]] led by [[Adriano Maestranzi]]. Afterwards, he called for backup and was given command of Abstergo's Sigma strike team, before leading the Templar assault on 30 November.

Maestranzi, not wanting to abandon the base, detonated a bomb that destroyed the Assassins' hideout and files, and killed all of Sigma team except for Berg, who suffered burns that left facial scarring. Despite the outcome, Juhani's superiors were pleased with his performance, crediting him for the deaths of three Assassins – even though Cunningham escaped – and did not hold him responsible for the loss of Sigma team.<ref name="ACI"/>

===Master Templar===
[[File:ACR Berg Injection.png|thumb|250px|Daniel Cross injecting Juhani with a transmitter]]
On 6 December, Berg was brought to a hidden chamber in Abstergo's Philadelphia facility, where he met with Laetitia. There, she made him a [[Master Templar]] and inducted him into the Templar Order's Inner Sanctum, but also had Daniel Cross inject Berg with a tracking device so they could monitor all of his movements.

Four days later, Juhani met with Vidic, England, Cross, and several other Templar operatives within the same room in Philadelphia, where England revealed that Abstergo had located the leader of the Assassins, [[William Miles]], in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]. Soon after, Berg was dispatched with a team to capture the Assassin.<ref name="ACI"/><ref name="ACR"/>

On 12 December, Berg led the reformed Sigma team in cornering William inside a museum in Cairo, and successfully captured and extracted him from the city, taking him to Abstergo's facility in [[Rome]].<ref name="ACI"/>

In 2013, Berg led an Abstergo team to [[India]] assigned to retrieve [[Jot Soora]], an employee of [[MysoreTech]] and a descendant of [[Raza Soora]]. The Templars' goal was to extract [[Genetic memory|memories]] relating to the [[Koh-i-Noor]] from Soora.<ref name="ACBM">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brahman]]''</ref>

===Abstergo Entertainment===
By 2014, Berg took over security in [[Abstergo Entertainment]]'s [[Montreal]] facilities as an "independent contractor" working for Abstergo. He, alongside [[Violet da Costa]], supervised a [[Helix research analyst|research analyst]] as they dove into the memories of [[Shay Cormac]] located in the [[Helix]], which had a virus implanted in them.<ref name ="ACRG">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''</ref>

==Personality and characteristics==
Juhani proved to be a hardened individual, ensuring operations proceeded efficiently. After being recruited by Warren Vidic, he has become a strong believer in the Templar cause and ideology, seeing it as a righteous cause for a better future. He showed respect for both the Assassins and his fellow Templars, as shown in a series of logs regarding certain figures from both factions across the ages, who had inspired Berg in certain ways. However, he did possess a strong determination when fighting against the Assassins, and even a streak of cruelty, shown through his desire to see their mind and spirit broken by before allowing them to die by his hands.<ref name ="ACRG"/>

As a former member of the Finnish Special Forces, Juhani possessed a diverse knowledge of [[Fists|melee]] and [[Firearms|ranged]] combat. He was skilled to the point of being able to subdue [[Daniel Cross]], another Master Templar, and took charge of the mission to capture William Miles in Cairo. However, he did not act solely based on orders alone, displaying a sense of flexibility in the field that resulted in him being scolded by his superiors. One such situation occurred during the mission in Cairo, as William Miles posed as a tour guide to a group of students once he had arrived. Laetitia England later accused him of avoiding conflict in order to protect the young civilians, as they reminded him of his daughter. Juhani resented the accusation, explaining that causing unnecessary chaos would have allowed Miles to slip away.<ref name ="ACRG"/>

As opposed to causing a scene, Juhani opted instead to apprehend Miles in the Cairo museum when the Assassin attempted to recover the [[First Civilization]] power source for the [[Grand Temple]]. Being a member of the Inner Sanctum, Juhani possessed knowledge of all activities in which Abstergo Industries was involved.<ref name ="ACRG"/>

==Trivia==
*Juhani is a Finnish cognate of the Hebrew name Yochanan, meaning "God is gracious". The name Otso is also Finnish, though archaic, meaning "bear". His last name, Berg, means "mountain" in several Germanic languages.
*In an audio file, Juhani revealed to Violet that he had only used an Animus to view his own ancestry once, and discovered that one of his ancestors was a Viking raider.
*In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'', Juhani's clothes bore resemblance to the attire worn by Shay Cormac during his time as a Templar, and were also adorned by an {{Wiki|Yggdrasil}} emblem.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
ACR Inner Sanctum Access.png|Juhani accessing the Inner Sanctum office
ACi-Kaboom.jpg|Berg being caught in an explosion during the raid on the Florentine Assassins
ACBM-Brahman Berg.jpg|Berg in the Mumbai Assassin safehouse
Juhani Otso Berg.jpg|Berg bearing the marks of his encounter with Assassins
</gallery>

==References==
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