Juhani Otso Berg

Full Name: Juhani Otso Berg, Lord of Borja

Other Names: 

• Juhani Bortja

• Paskiainen karhu

• Narttu

• Viimeinen Borgia

• The Wolf of Cain

• Cain's descendant

• Corona Kingdom's worst enemy

• Queen Arianna's archnemesis

Born: December 28 1985, at Mikkeli, Finland (part of Slaughter of the Innocents)

Died: TBA

Species: Terran Human

Nationality: 

• Finnish

• Italian

Age: 39

Gender: Male

Occupation(s): 

• Soldier

• Drug Dealer

Language Spoken: 

• English

• Finnish

• Italian

• Latin

Alignment: Bad

Paraphernalia: coming soon

Powers and Abilities: coming soon

Partner(s): 

• Helmi Berg (former wife; murdered; deceased)

Relative(s): 

• Cain (paternal primordial ancestor)

• Tubal-cain (paternal primordial ancestor)

• Jofré de Borja y Escrivà (Cain's descendant; paternal ancestor)

• Isabel de Borja (paternal ancestor)

• Rodrigo Borgia (Cain's descendant; paternal ancestor)

• Vannozza dei Cattanei (paternal ancestor)

• Giovanni Borgia (paternal ancestor's relative)

• Lucrezia Borgia (paternal ancestor's relative)

• Goffredo Borgia (paternal ancestor's relative)

• Cesare Borgia (paternal ancestor)

• Johannes Bortja (Rodrigo's descendant; Mikael's ancestor)

• Gibeon Berg (Rodrigo's descendant; father)

• Elina Berg (former daughter)

Affiliate(s): 

• Finnish Defence Forces (banned; formerly; ruse)

  • Finnish Army (banned; formerly; ruse)

  • Utti Jaeger Regiment (formerly, ruse)

• Abstergo Industries (currently)

  • Abstergo Medical (currently)

  • Abstergo Entertainment (currently)

  • Sigma Team (currently)

  • Anti-Inner Sanctum Perpetual (currently)

• Borgia Family (currently)

• Templar Knights (ruse, enemy)

  • Inner Sanctum (ruse, enemy)

• Assassin Order (ruse, enemy)

• Conservationist Hunters/Monster Hunter (enemy)

  • Corona Kingdom Family (archenemy)

• US CIA (archenemy)

Likes: none

Dislikes: none

Inspiration: Himself

Conservation Status: Alive

Juhani ® - This species is a registered trademark of Ubisolf, and it is used by Earth Responsibly and Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure spinoff as permission.

Juhani is a Finnish cognate of the Hebrew name Yochanan, meaning "God is merciful." The name Otso is also Finnish, though archaic, meaning "bear." His last name, Berg, means "mountain" in several Germanic languages. Finnish is one of the three Uralic languages and not Germanic.

It is likely he is of Germanic ancestry (possibly Swedish or German), as Finland was not of Viking origin or part of proper Scandinavia. Coming from southern Finland, he is more likely to be a Finno-Swede, with descendants coming from Sweden, possibly in the 1200s. Ethnic Finns lived in tribes throughout Finland, Estonia, and Northwestern Russia from Western Siberia. Norse sagas have recorded Finnic peoples, but with very little contact. In Earth Responsibly and Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, Juhani was considered mostly Finnish and Germanic with less Italian and Spanish origin. To begin, his father was a descendant of Cesare Borgia, and his descendant was Johannes Bortja-Berg, the murderer of King Frederic of Corona Kingdom, as a result of the Second Purge of Assassins and Hunters.

Juhani's appearance—severe, predatory, and hard to forget rather than attractive in a heroic sense—is crucial to how people remember him. Tall, broad-shouldered, and heavily built, he has a pale Nordic complexion that is frequently referred to as "winter-blooded," cold blue-gray or steel-colored eyes, a thick neck and harsh jawline, blond to dirty blond hair when he was younger, darker or close-cropped as an adult, and numerous scars from training, combat, prison, and artifact incidents. As Juhani kills the animal that his former wife caused, Zinogre can now enhance its physical strikes with explosive bursts of sparks and lightning, leaving Juhani's right arm scarred from Zinogre's attacks.

Berg's eyes, which are frequently described as "wolf-like," a glare that makes people feel "measured for burial," broken knuckles and old hand fractures from recurrent assaults, and a constant tension in his mouth and brow, as if he is constantly repressing anger, are his distinguishing features. Later in life, chronic use of Pieces of Eden and experimental Abstergo technologies might cause mild symptoms like nosebleeds, dilated pupils, sleeplessness, hollows under the eyes, and noticeable tremors. Juhani's visage actually resembles a cornered wolf, a humiliated knight, and "a man whose soul arrived already bruised," according to other characters.

Juhani’s importance comes from his genealogical horror. According to Animus records, genetic reconstructions, and forbidden Hunter archives, he descends from a chain of infamous figures. Juhani's genealogy is viewed as a symbolic and biological predisposition—a family line consistently traced toward dominance, violence, and artifact obsession—rather than as a magical certainty of evil. Whether Berg was born cursed, sculpted into monstrosity, or both is a matter of debate between Assassin archivists and Hunter theologians. The most terrifying response is that all three groups came to the conclusion that it was both.

Ancestral Bloodline

• Cain — the first murderer, archetype of betrayal and fratricide

• Cesare Borgia — symbol of corruption, power-lust, and dynastic cruelty

• Johannes Bortja — a Finnish-Russian noble killer in your timeline

• unnamed northern collaborators who served proto-Templar warlords

• criminal mercenaries and artifact traffickers of the 19th and 20th centuries

He wasn't born into constant chaos. His early years were, in fact, momentarily warm, which adds to the tragic nature of his demise. Gibeon, his father, is a guy who hates his own ancestry. He is aware that the family is tainted by old-fashioned factional maneuvering, murder, and greed. He wants his youngster to grow up to be anything different from the family. He attempts to instill discipline on Juhani by keeping him away from criminal relatives, detesting dynastic violence, and being afraid of what their family might become into. The other pole, the return to hereditary darkness, is symbolized by his mother's name, Nadia. She strives to legitimize brutality in Juhani's upbringing and is connected, either directly or indirectly, to the criminal traditions of the old family. Juhani thus experiences a psychological civil war as he grows up, with one parent wanting him to inherit the curse through Nadia and the other wanting him to escape it through Gibeon. The fact that Juhani wasn't always alone is one of the most significant aspects of his past.

Freed from prison despite his criminal history, Gibeon arranges or encourages a return to disciplined service and both are reconciled. Juhani, in adolescence, enters the military environment in Finland, eventually joining the Utti Jaeger Regiment. At first, he is mocked for his roughness, temperament, and unstable personal history and then everyone stops laughing. He excelled, because Juhani is frighteningly effective at endurance, survival training, weapons handling, tactical violence, urban breach work, intimidation, and pain tolerance. He becomes one of the youngest and most capable recruits in his unit.

But the same traits that make him elite also make him dangerous with obsession, aggression, emotional dissociation, inability to de-escalate, attraction to forbidden tools and power systems. This is where his personality starts to crystallize that he is not as a patriot, not as a protector, but as a man who feels most alive when conflict gives him permission to become monstrous.

Juhani has virtually incalculable strength, due to his Cain's deity heritage, and shared with Borgias. He possesses supernatural strength to the point where Juhani can punch through stone with little effort and overpower demons and powerful creatures much larger than him.

Created to hunt down Assassins, Templars, and Hunters who had survived the Great Extinction or Great Purge, Sigma Team was originally led by the Master Abstergo Juhani Otso Berg but has since gone on to function as Abstergo's general kill-squad, with operations in a number of different theaters.

Due to his martial arts training, Juhani, a former member of the Finnish Special Forces, has a broad understanding of both melee and ranged fighting. Because of his superior assassin skills, he is able to track down even the most formidable assassins, such as William Miles. He spearheaded the operation to apprehend Assassin Mentor William Miles and Grand Master of Templar Quirin Stearns in Cairo, and he was proficient enough to defeat another Master Templar, Daniel Cross, who had been taught by the Assassins at first.

Juhani was able to engage Galina Voronina in hand-to-hand combat, but the Master Assassin ultimately had the upper hand. Juhani has the ability to incapacitate three attackers who were trying to ambush him by jumping through the window of a moving car. He clearly has a high pain threshold because when a throwing knife was stuck in his hand, he just yanked it out and started fighting hands-to-hand without even flinching. Juhani was incredibly resilient, even after suffering severe injuries, killing five skilled Instruments of the First Will with his own hands. One of his hits during his battle with Galina unintentionally broke a portion of a brick wall.

Berg wears a specially created clothing from André Bolden for his role as the Black Cross. It contains Abstergo's hidden blade, a force shield gauntlet, and a red Templar cross on the breast, coupled with a cap and a thick red scarf. The outfit has grappling hook-equipped gauntlets that can be utilized for climbing. Berg also included a pair of military goggles that were prototypes from the Abstergo Skunkworks branch.

However, his elite qualities also make him hazardous due to his preoccupation, hostility, emotional separation, incapacity to defuse tense situations, and attraction to tools and power structures that are prohibited. At this point, Juhani's personality begins to solidify as a man who feels most alive when conflict allows him to become monstrous rather than as a patriot or guardian.

Juhani Otso Berg proved to be a hardened individual, ensuring operations proceeded efficiently for Abstergo, not Templar. After being recruited by Warren Vidic, he became a strong believer in the Ex-Templar Abstergo cause and ideology, seeing it as a righteous cause for a better future. He showed respect for the Assassins, Hunters, Templars, and his fellow Abstergo members, as shown in a series of logs regarding certain figures from four factions across the ages who had inspired Berg in certain ways, and he restored the Borgia family. However, he did possess a strong determination when fighting against the Assassins, Templars, Hunters, animals, and even a streak of cruelty, shown through his desire to see their mind and spirit broken, before allowing them to die by his hands.

Al Mualim, Julius Cesar, Haras, Haytham Kenway, Duncan Walpole, Baptiste, Arno Dorian, Elise de la Serre, Connor Kenway, Vali cel Tradat, Shay Cormac, Lucy Stillman, William Miles, Basim Ibn Ishaq, and Daniel Cross were among the people who inspired Juhani Berg. These individuals were all traitors to the Assassin, Templar, and Hunter cause, and he was used against Queen Arianna of Corona, Johannes Bortja and Juhani Berg's enemy, as well as a number of individuals who were connected to her.

Feeling deceived, Juhani left the Templars and gathered supporters to form his own faction within Abstergo Industries. The CIA regarded Juhani as the world's most dangerous man. His group, the Sigma Team, was one of the Abstergo task forces that were sent in during the Great Purge in January 2000 following the victories of Nilan Punzalan and Francis Muller. During this period, they hunted down and killed a great number of Assassins, Templars, and Hunters, including well-known individuals who Juhani had singled out for his ruthless and insane actions. Additionally, after using cocaine from Abstergo and exotic ingredients from mythical beings, Juhani and the Sigma Team hunted for and killed Muslims, Christians, and Jews because Juhani's religion was prohibited by the Lutheran Society in Finland, one of Templar's subsidiaries.

In general, Borgia's reign over the Templars, now used by Juhani to reform himself as Templar to Abstergo worldwide, is regarded as the "Dark Age of the Order.". Connor Kenway first kills Johannes Bortja before Arianna is late to kill her husband's murderer. When Johannes vowed not to die at the hands of man, Ratonhnhaké:ton stopped Queen Arianna and dragged her with Assassin Order members to declare that he would leave Bortja "in the hands of fate" and throw him off the castle wall to his death, but Johannes's wife left and was expelled to the Sahara Desert.

Juhani was born in Mikkeli, Finland, with his parents, but his dad, Gibeon, was a descendant of Rodrigo de Borja and his ancestor, Cain. He was dragged around the world by his father, who worked for an oil company belonging to Abstergo Industries. Juhani was raised in countries such as Afghanistan, Kurdistan, and Oman. With his father's blessing, Juhani returned to Finland to join the army.

He momentarily finds acceptance among students from a variety of backgrounds in Finland's elementary school; some are from Templar families, some are from Assassin circles, and some are just regular people. He experiences friendship, a sense of belonging, structure, and the potential to develop into a decent person for a few years. This time frame is significant since it demonstrates that his future was not predetermined. Juhani was joyful, vivacious, and amusing with his friends. He aspires to serve in the military and become valuable, respected, and feared solely by adversaries. Then the fracture occurs.

Nadia, Juhani's mother, tries to pull him back into the family's criminal and bloodthirsty past after the graduation. She becomes the first significant test of what he will become, whether by force, manipulation, emotional abuse, or outright danger, and Juhani uses a Swiss army knife to kill her. This incident should be described as the first irreparable moral collapse rather than as cartoon villainy. Juhani is arrested while still a minor and Gibeon disowns him after one of his boyhood buddies notifies the authorities. Every organization that comes into contact with him after that—prison, the military, intelligence, Abstergo—begins to perceive a weapon instead of a boy.

Juhani's initial detention ought to have been an opportunity for mental health treatment, rehabilitation, and disassociation from organized crime. Rather, Abstergo Industries steps in to stop him. They perceive him as genetically valuable, psychologically unstable, physically trainable, and perhaps controlled while posing as operatives, dishonest officials, and artifact-linked intelligence assets. He is discreetly removed, moved, examined, and ultimately directed into systems intended to maximize rather than heal him. At this point, Juhani ceases to be just "a dangerous boy" and turns into a corporate war effort. Abstergo provides financing, dogma, and a purpose to the evil within him rather than creating it from nothing.

At first, they made fun of his muddled accent, but the jokes quickly stopped as Berg proved himself to be an exceptional recruit, becoming one of the youngest Special Jaegers in the Utti Jaeger Regiment until he was banned from using cocaine. However, around 2010, he opted to become a mercenary, believing the pay would be better than that of Jaeger's. Juhani needed the money to afford cystic fibrosis treatments for his newborn daughter, Elina. This choice cost him his marriage when his wife, Helmi, disapproving of his new mercenary life, asked for divorce.

1. "The thunder bitch that caused my wife to divorce and kill it, this is Abstergo!"

2. "Your daughter fled like a reptile, and now Hunters will perish permanently since I am your enemy in front of my ancestor who killed your husband. Templars, Assassins, and Hunters also disappeared into your reality!"

3. "Tua figlia è fuggita come un rettile, e ora i Cacciatori periranno definitivamente poiché io sono tuo nemico di fronte al mio antenato che ha ucciso tuo marito. Anche Templari e Assassini sono scomparsi nella tua realtà!"

See also: none

• Juhani Otso Berg and Basim Ibn Ishaq, who are both criminals and stand in opposition to Camilo Madrigal, the four heroes' amiable ally and the grandson of Queen Arianna, celebrated their shared birthday on December 28 in honor of the Massacre of the Innocents.

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