Otto Reger

Otto Reger is the owner and manger of Hotel Reger. He's one of the protagonists of the first Part of Murder in the Alps.

Physical Appearance
Otto is an older middle-aged man with greying hair, beard, and a muttonchop-style moustache. His expression tends to be friendly. He wears a white shirt and a black tie, over which he wears a green waistcoat. He also has dark trousers and an apron.

In outdoor scenes with the winter weather picking up, he wears a cap, a scarf and a thigh-length coat.

Personality
Otto is good-natured, and manages the whole hotel from reception to kitchen and serving the guests. He wants to make his guests feel welcome and safe, and often calls them by first name, such as Anna or Giovanni, or their preferred honorific, like Professor Clark. He is frequently confronted with uncomfortable truths about what is going on in his hotel, and despite the initial shock and disbelief, is able to rationalise these disappointments quickly.

Otto's friendly personality did not prevent him from smuggling, or later stopping the operation, which makes him and the hotel a target. However, he admits that what he did is wrong, and is even willing to sacrifice himself for Anna.

Abilities
Otto is capable of using firearms, as well as cooking for his hotel guests and doing the manual labour that a hotel requires. Not much is known about Otto's other abilities, aside from being able to speak English and German.

Anna Myers
Otto and Anna Myers first meet when she first comes to Hotel Reger. He greets her kindly, and after some talks, decides to tell her about the weird events in the hotel. With time, they become close enough for Anna to become Otto's go-to help for solving mysterious and dangerous events at the hotel.

Over the course of the game's first part, Otto and Anna grow closer. They exchange light-hearted banter, but also share their doubts and suspicons about the mysteries very honestly. Anna agrees not to tell the police about Otto's smuggling, and Otto is willing to protect Anna with his life if needed. Anna also saves Otto when smugglers left him to freeze to death in Dancing with the Beasts. During the chapter, Otto even takes to calling her with pet names, such as his 'guardian angel' and 'Liebchen ' (darling).

Hans Lenz
Otto and the town priest Father Hans Lenz are very close. They had known each other for a long time before the game's events, and were both part of the hotel's smuggling operation. It's implied that Otto got Father Lenz to join the smuggling. After Lenz's murder, Otto is horrified and grieved, and blames himself for his friend's fate.

Gerhard Wagner
Otto trusted Gerhard Wagner for years and falsely thought they we're close. After he finds out how ruthless Gerhard is, and that Gerhard has lied about his affiliation to the Sturmabteilung Brownshirts for as long as they've known each other, Otto stops supporting him. He is even willing to sacrifice himself for Anna when Gerhard tries to shoot her. Gerhard worked for the German SS, and was arrested and taken to custody by Swiss Police, and Otto is satisfied to see it happen.

Professor Clark
Charles Clark first came to stay at Hotel Reger in Deadly Snowstorm. In the events of both Atlantic Connection and the following Dancing with the Beasts, Otto protects Professor Clark in his hotel against the Sturmabteilung assassins trying to get at him for his work. Together with Anna, Otto is ready to help Professor Clark escape the country in disguise.

Life before Hotel Reger
Otto Wilhelm Reger was a soldier in the First World War. Despite Switzerland being a neutral country, troops were still deployed to the northern and western borders for fear of invasion. During the events of Atlantic Connection, he tells Anna that getting to know Gerhard some ten years before in-game events, around 1923, was a way for him to talk through the lingering traumatic memories. Gerhard later scoffs at Otto's 'nostalgic stories'. He has also been a long-time friend of Father Lenz since before the game's events.

Trivia
The surname Reger comes from mediaeval German reiger or reigel, 'heron', or alternatively regen, 'excitable', 'moved'.

Otto's voice actor changes in each of his appearances, Deadly Snowstorm, Atlantic Connection and Dancing with the Beasts. In the first two chapters he appears in, Otto has a lower and softer voice compared to the last one.