Juhani Otso Berg

Juhani Otso Berg is a former member of the Finnish Special Forces, and by 2012, an agent of the Operations Division of Abstergo Industries.

Biography

Early life

Before joining the Templars, Berg was in the Utti Jaeger Regiment, Finland's special forces. A few years before 2012, he became a mercenary.

Berg had a daughter, who was three years old in 2012.

Rise as a Templar

In an agent evaluation report conducted on 8 November 2012, Ctibor Hašek identified Berg as a potential candidate for the Inner Sanctum, noting him as an obedient, loyal agent who was dedicated to the Templar cause. However, Hašek was concerned that Berg's daughter could be a weakness.

On 16 November, Berg was sent to New York by Laetitia England to investigate a cybersecurity breach related to 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 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 Helsinki, Finland, Berg was seen spending time with his three-year-old daughter.

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. Berg called his superiors and convinced them to allow him to follow the Assassin back to his base instead of killing him.

Berg successfully tracked Cunningham to the Assassin base in Florence led by Adriano Maestranzi. Berg then called for backup and was given command of Sigma strike team, and led 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, Berg's superiors were pleased with his performance, crediting him for the deaths of three Assassins (Cunningham escaped) and not holding him responsible for the loss of Sigma Team.

Gallery

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  Berg's initial evaluation by Ctibor Hašek.
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  Berg being caught in a explosion during the raid on the Florentine Assassins.
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  Otso Berg's evaluation after the raid.

Reference

• Assassin's Creed: Initiates - The Desmond Files