Shrek is from a remote swamp in the fairy-tale land of Duloc, where he lives as a recluse at the beginning of the 2001 film "Shrek"
. Although Shrek speaks with a Scottish accent, he is not actually from Scotland; the accent was chosen to contrast with the English villain Lord Farquaad and to give Shrek a working-class, humorous character, but the fictional world he inhabits does not include Scotland as a place
. Thus, Shrek's origin is the swamp near Duloc in a fantasy setting rather than a real-world country.
