> Grandparents unite Castile and Aragon
>They kick the Muslims out
>& the Jews
>They find and conquer enormous swathes of the New World
>Their daughter (mummy) marries a Habsburg (daddy)
>You're born, and by inheritance can lay claim to the first empire upon which the sun never sets.
>These are your European territories and they're not even your chief source of revenue.
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO SPAIN!?
>>3009671
h-he was also HRE.
>>3009671
Everyone and their mother hates you, including 30% of the people who you "rule" in Europe. You are the Big Bad for everyone you border except Portugal, who you almost have a gentleman's agreement not to fuck in the ass for some reason.
You experience the worst cultural upheaval across your burgeoning empire and are forced to chose how to divide it. You lose Austria, Burgundy, Naples, Sardinia, and the Netherlands because your empire is just too big and disjointed on basically every level.
>You are rich as fuck though from those gold and silver mines though. So rich that inflation fucks you in the ass.