Backwater Swamp

**Backwater Swamp** is one of **20** Realms within *Dead by Daylight*.

It was implemented into the Game alongside the release of CHAPTER 3: Of Flesh and Mud on 8 December 2016.

## Overview

The Realm consists of **2** Maps and is set in a swamp theme. The Realm's prominent colour palette is grey.

## Lore

*It wasn't until the villagers of a nearby hamlet discovered a half-submerged collection of huts during a search for a missing person that the true history of Backwater Swamp began to unravel. After the federal authorities were alerted to the small settlement, they opted to drain the waters around the village in order to investigate the outcome of the previous inhabitants. Even after only a small amount of water had been removed, they soon realized that any poor souls that had drifted on the currents or gotten lost wandering in the swamp had found their way to this place. Saturated bits of flesh floated in the remaining water and caked blood darkened the already-rotting wood of the shacks amidst the occasional limb. In the middle of the encampment, a large paddle steamer engulfed by the sloppy, drooling mud loomed over its surroundings. Upon closer inspection, one could read discrepant lettering across the portside reading, "The Pale Rose".*

*Further drainage eventually gave access to the lower levels of the steamer. Even going near the entrance caused several investigators to vomit as a horrible stench oozed out into the open air. At the top of the stairs, several marks in the walls could be noted, hinting that something had been clawing at them. The marks continued almost in a line down the steps until the flooded basement hid them from sight. At the bottom, the true horror was found. An approximation of 37 confirmed sets of human remains floated and bobbed in the crimson water, veins and intestines flowing out of their respective cavities. Corpses showed traces of being cut into, their bones apparently carefully scraped free of flesh by either tools, claws, or both. Only one body, Lander Millard, was ever identified and sufficiently recovered for a burial. Most deduced a cannibalistic individual likely hunted in the swamp, though this was never proven. Village rumour has it whoever was responsible fled into the darkest reaches of the swamp, to one day begin their foul hunt again.*

*As for the family that actually lurked in these waters - the villagers would stumble across them elsewhere, devoured by an identifiable animal.*

## Offering

* **Slightly increases** the Odds of being sent to the **Backwater Swamp** Realm.
	+ The Offering modifies the Realm Selector Logic by a value of **2**.

* **Considerably increases** the Odds of being sent to the **Backwater Swamp** Realm.
	+ The Offering modifies the Realm Selector Logic by a value of **5**.

	+ The Offering modifies the Realm Selector Logic by a value of **9,999**.

*"A leather-bound book containing horrible human meat recipes such as the granny-slapping good chilli."*

## Trivia

* In the Game files, the **Backwater Swamp** Realm is being referred to under the name ***Swamp***.
* The Pier is a Landmark that is featured on all maps of the **Backwater Swamp** Realm.
* The **Backwater Swamp** is likely situated around a Bayou, a body of water typically found in a flat, low-lying area or an extremely slow-moving stream or river. Bayous are commonly found in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, notably the Mississippi River Delta.
* In the BETA of *Dead by Daylight*, a prototype, unfinished version of the **Backwater Swamp** Realm existed as a single Map under the name of **Paradise Creek**.
	+ It featured many structures and landmarks, some of which are present in the Swamp Maps today:
		- The The Pale Rose, which was much more progressed than most other parts of the Map and even fully textured.
		- The *Shrimp Boat*, also fully textured.
		- The main building as well as the cabin of the Grim Pantry Map, the latter being fully textured.
		- An unreleased *Village* building, presumed to have pertained to the **Grim Gully** Map, which was ultimately scrapped.
		- The unreleased *Blood Willow* tree, as well as a scrapped sewage pipe asset.