extortioner

I got up at dawn after many bad dreams, and paid the extortioner for bed and breakfast and inaccurate directions as to the way I should take, and set forth afoot to find Otherhord, an ancient Fastness not far from Rer.

“But in a large population, an extortioner will eventually pair up with another extortioner.”

His extortioner, he said, comes unarmed and is generally polite.

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labor.

A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner.