Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-88.227.233.89-20150223220151/@comment-6881629-20150225122727

Seeing as theres no answer yet i'll give it a go, the quest name is taken from a piece of writing by the ex-Bethesda writer Michael Kirkbride, "The Gardener of Men" was the nickname given to the Daedric Prince of knowledge and memory Hermaeus Mora in the Imperial Census of Daedra Lords.

The actual term "The Gardener of Men" i think is an analogy to how Mora see's humans, a gardener watches and feeds plants until they blossom or fruit then they pick them. Mora watches man encourages and feeds it knowledge then he takes them and their knowledge for himself, kind of like what happens in the actual quest to the Skaal Shamen. I think anyway.