and then I just ran away because that was creeping me out that I kept finding Talos shrines dotting the northern coast

After taking the quest from Feralda in the winterhold college for reaching level 100 destruction I jumped off the bridge at the gate that opens automatically (wish it would automatically shut it self as well ...) and then headed west from there

(this is when i found shrines of talos)

after turning off the player marker and all active quest except for the destruction ritual I used clairvoyance and that did absulty nothing ...

I came across a dead mammoth standing upraight and half burried in a glacier wall

cleared a light house full of sounds that just gave me chills untill i found out what was making the noise

and then saved out side of Arfiland (text was really hard to read its a dwemer ruin visible from the light house I cleared there was a bug in a jar at the light house)

I really don't understand how the book is supposed to help me currently wandering teh northern wasteland going by this "Northward, haunted northern coastline"

Did you try the walkthrough in the wiki guide? http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Destruction_Ritual_Spell

I dont want to the quest in a travel here travel there clear this slay that ... I'm wondering how do i find out where to go is there an npc that can point the way ? words writtin in the snow ? what do i look for ?

http://i.imgur.com/Hbp5d.jpg

Faralda gave you a book at the start of the quest. Read the book- it'll give you a riddle to solve for where to go and what to do. Once you've done that, the second riddle will appear. Go there, do that, and get the third riddle. After doing the third thing, read the book one last time.

Sadly the quest does have you going from one location to another, the first location is Windward ruins southwest of Dawnstar....

could some one walk me through the 1st riddle i dont understand how what it says = windward ?

how was the riddles figured out ?

Read the WIKI! *shakes head* Windward Ruins is a place... A ruin, called Windward...

how does

"Northward, haunted northern coastline
And south, Dwemer live and toil,
A simple place, a shield from draft.
At this stand wield mage's craft
So fierce the sea will boil."

= windward ? how was this riddle solved ?

The same way every other riddle is solved, intelligence.

There are 3 ruins you need to go to. One near Dawnstar, other near Riverwood, and another in the hold of the Reach. You need to go there and place the book on the shrine and use various destruction spells, so there is no way of avoiding to travel there.

draft = wind
shield = ward

Derp.

Ok, I never done the quest, but looking at the riddle and the Skyrim map, you know you should follow the coast line, starting in Winterhold, yes? I could only find one dwemer ruin close to the northern coastline, Mzinchaleft. And think of what place was haunted? (by bad dreams). It's pretty vague, the riddle yea. Not sure how other's figured it out. I guess they looked at the wiki! LOL

And yes, what Aphaea said!!!!! However, knowing it is Windward, it's easy to figure that one out LOL =p

Never, having been there, but looking at the map image below, I'd say it looks like there's a place that shields you from a "draft" (wind), where a "stand" exists. North of it lies the "haunted northern coastline" and to the south of it is some kind of Dwemer ruin.

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/index.php?title=Windward_Ruins&image=Windward_ruins-png

Argh. Windward is the side exposed to the wind. The side shielded from the wind would be leeward.

Curse of recently rereading all the Patrick O'Brien novels.