Heirs To The Land is a Spanish TV series released in 2022 as the sequel to Cathedral of the Sea. It focuses on Hugo Llor's rise from Rags to Riches as a successful winemaker.
- Adipose Rex: King John is a Fat Bastard who has to be hauled into bed with ropes because he is too heavy to have normal sex.
- Awful Wedded Life: Years after the attack on the Jewish ghetto, Hugo resumes his love affair with Regina and is blackmailed into marrying her after she converts to Christianity. Both become unhappy and resentful.
- Big Bad: Dennis Puig has Arnau beheaded.
- Barefoot Poverty: Hugo was too poor to afford shoes before he found a job at Arnau's shipyard.
- Black-and-Grey Morality: Anti-Hero Bernard robs and burns the Asshole Victim Roger's ships and kills any nobles on board, but spares the lives of the common sailors.
- Babies Ever After: Hugo's daughter Merce has a son with Bernard, and Hugo becomes the child's guardian after Bernard's death.
- Butt-Monkey: Hugo's cook Barcha refuses to clean the house or get out of bed to make breakfast, so he pours piss on her.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Barcha shifts to Let's Get Dangerous! and holds the Bishop at knifepoint until he confesses the location of Regina after she kidnapped Merce.
- Cheerful Child: Hugo adopts Ascenda's child Merce as his own daughter. She wants to be a winemaker like Hugo, but also a doctor like Regina.
- The Caretaker: Barcha serves as a Parental Substitute to Merce.
- Corrupt Church: Hugo's sister Ascenda is sent to a convent where the nuns are raped by perverted priests.
- Co-Dragons: Dennis is assisted by his son and brother-in-law.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Roger confesses to plotting to overthrow King Ferdinand, expecting to be beheaded as befitting a nobleman. Instead, Bernard has him stripped and thrown to a mob of angry peasants.
- Cultured Badass: Bernard might be a bloodthirsty pirate, but he is also a well-educated nobleman with an interest in literature.
- The Chessmaster: Bernard's revenge on his in-laws might have appeared rash, but he prepared himself for all possibilities. If he killed them he would have avenged Gerald and Arnau. If he failed to kill them but escaped, he could try again. If he was captured alive, he would use his money and friendship with the king to escape severe punishment. If they killed him, they would have lost the inheritance and his second wife would be disgraced for bearing a bastard child. In his final will he annulled his second marriage, disinherited the children of his wife, and declared Arnau his only legitimate child.
- Double Meaning: The title could refer to Bernard and Hugo inheriting the estates of Arnau and Joseph, but it could also refer to the death of King Pedro and succession by his son John.
- It could also be a reference to the Beatitudes from the Gospel of Matthew. The meek, humble Hugo inherits land while the cruel and merciless Puigs are cast out.
- Decoy Protagonist: Arnau seems to be set up as an important supporting character, but he is executed by the end of the first episode. Mar dies in Episode 2.
- Did Not Get the Girl: Hugo falls in love with Jewish girl Regina, but has to give her up because she is already betrothed to Joseph.
- Daddy's Little Villain: Roger Puig grows up to become as cruel and merciless as his father Dennis.
- Dragon Ascendant: Alpha Bitch Margarida dies shortly after Arnau's execution, and her brother Dennis replaces her as the Big Bad.
- Death Equals Redemption: In his final moments outside the cathedral, Bernard sees the statue of the Virgin Mary smiling down on him.
- Doctor Jerk: Regina is a trained healer, but she is not a pleasant person.
- Dressed to Plunder: Bernard is a pirate captain with a Sea Dog Beard who wears a lot of red clothing.
- The Dog Bites Back: Bernard supports Ferdinand's claim to the throne and is made an admiral in the king's navy. He immediately uses his position of power to arrest Roger and seize his estates in revenge for enslaving him.
- Do with Him as You Will: Bernard allows Asshole Victim Roger to be Torn Apart by the Mob, then sends in The Confidant Gerald to finish him off with a dagger.
- The Dung Ages: Medieval Barcelona is still a filthy, violent place, and attacks on the Jewish ghetto are common.
- Even Evil Has Standards: King John Would Not Hurt A Child, and sentences the teenage Bernard to enslavement rather than beheading.
- Eye Scream: Hugo is locked in the convent by the Abbess, and escapes by jabbing Roger in the eye with a stick.
- Evil Wears Black: The Puigs wear dark colors, and even their servants wear black and gold coats.
- Friendly Pirate: Arnau's son Bernard is thought to have been killed by the Corsairs, but it's later revealed that he has become a successful pirate captain.
- Enemy Mine: Joseph is angry at Hugo when he discovers that he has been cheating with Regina. Years later they reconcile when he realises that the Manipulative Bastard Regina also betrayed Hugo.
- False Friend: Bernard's father in law deceives him while murdering or discrediting Bernard's trusted friends.
- Four-Star Badass: Bernard commands an invasion fleet against Genoa.
- Karma Houdini: Of all people, Dennis Puig isn't killed by Hugo and Bernard or put on trial for his crimes. He dies in his bed at what was considered an advanced age by medieval standards.
- Kick the Dog: After Arnau is beheaded, Dennis seizes his estate and takes Mar's shoes. He permits her to keep her dress however.
- Good Colors, Evil Colors: Hugo wears brown, white and green clothes because he is a Badass Pacifist who works the land.
- Good Is Not Nice: Bernard is a patron to Hugo and treats his slaves better than the Puigs, but he is merciless to his enemies.
- Good Is Not Dumb: Hugo's enemies underestimate him because he is an illiterate peasant, but he is a Guile Hero capable of devising intricate plans to bring them down.
- He Who Fights Monsters: After the death of his parents, enslavement on the galleys and years of piracy, Bernard becomes a Sociopathic Hero and eventually turns against his friend Hugo.
- May–December Romance: Bernard marries Merce even though he is older than Hugo.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Bernard is pounding on Hugo's face outside the convent when the nuns bring out his son Arnau. He has a Heel Realisation and finally understands that Hugo and Merce weren't kidnapping Arnau but protecting him from his in-laws.
- Nobility Marries Money: Technically both Hugo and Bernard were Nouveau Riche, but Bernard was born into a position of privilege before being enslaved, and was appointed Count by the new king.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Dennis is Genre Savvy enough to know that if Bernard is spared execution he will return for revenge. King John realises that his authority depends on appearing to act within the law and not appearing too harsh, so he decides to sentence Bernard to A Fate Worse Than Death as a galley slave.
- Pariah Prisoner: As Roger's sex slave, Catherina is routinely abused by her master. She is also despised by the other slaves for living in her master's chamber and wearing expensive dresses.
- Red Is Heroic: Bernard wears a lot of dark red, brown and silver clothes.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Hooker with a Heart of Gold Catherina has a miserable life as Roger Puig's concubine. When he finds a new lover, he hands her over to his subordinates.
- Red Right Hand: Roger wears an eyepatch because Hugo poked out his eye with a sharp stick.
- Rightful King Returns: King John dies suddenly, and Pedro's grandson Ferdinand becomes king.
- Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick: Bernard has a Hair-Trigger Temper, but his Number Two Gerald is friendly even to those who lose Bernard's favor, like Hugo.
- Thanatos Gambit: It would seem that Bernard put Honor Before Reason and launched a Suicide Attack against his in-laws in revenge for poisoning his son Arnau. In reality, Bernard had prepared himself by writing a new will to disinherit his second wife.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: Hugo has an opportunity to stab Roger with a dagger, but he can't bring himself to do it. Instead, he gives Bernard letters implicating the Puigs in a conspiracy against the king.
- Toilet Humor: Barcha's sarcastic response to Hugo ordering the servants to collect jars of piss.
- The Good King: Pedro was a Reasonable Authority Figure who tolerated commoners like Arnau, in contrast to his son The Evil Prince John whose Decadent Court favours cruel noblemen like the Puigs.
- Tragic Hero: Bernard's trusted aide Gerald is one of the few people brave enough to deliver a What the Hell, Hero?, and one of even fewer that he would listen to. He is murdered by Bernard's father-in-law and the death made to look like suicide.
- White-and-Grey Morality: Hugo is indisputably good, and Bernard is morally grey. After eliminating the Big Bad together and forming a marital alliance, Bernard begins to distance himself from Hugo and eventually ceases to favour him.
- We Help the Helpless: Jerk with a Heart of Gold Barcha feeds and shelters fugitive slaves in Hugo's outbuildings.
- Wicked Stepmother: Bernard's second wife acts kindly in front of her stepson Arnau, but is secretly poisoning him with henbane so her offspring inherits Bernard's estate.
- You Have to Have Jews: Joseph and the Jews are old friends of Arnau who teach Hugo how to tend their vineyards.
- You Killed My Father: Hugo agrees to help Arnau's son Bernard kill Dennis Puig because he saw Arnau as a Parental Substitute.
