Honestly, guys I don't get the whole big deal about it being fantasy. I think it's a great idea. If there were fantasy creatures in the Middle Ages, we can assume that they too eventually progressed to an era equal to that of the Renaissance and the Age of Exploration. Plus, you cannot argue about realism on a website that is completely based around being something that's not real. Personally I'm interested in 1. IRELAND, 2. Scotland, and 3. Denmark. Would it be possible to slightly change them to beings of their mythology?

P.S. Columbus didn't discover that the Earth was round, Rare. He simply found the Caribbean, which he thought were near India. Hence it is called the West Indies. It was actually Magellan who discovered that the Earth was round, after sailing from Europe to India.