He believes most of the spells were lost to time, but he still remembered a few. So he could go and try and see if he can redo them. He started with the simple ones. The simplest one he knew was Snow.
If he remembered correctly all he needed to do body wise was point up and the magic would happen. So he did, he pointed up to the sky with his index finger, or in this case it was the roof of the room. And nothing.
"Hmm. Its been a while since I used magic energy. I believe perhaps I must do..."
He repeated the gesture again and focused on his magic and mana. He noticed a magic circle as well as his hand glowing the same colour. He believede he was succeeding. But the spell faded away before it could even work.
With that spark he in a way had motivation to work harder. So he pretty much did what others would call the definitition of insanity. Doing the same thing and expecting a different result. But in his case, the result with each attempt would be different.
Until eventually he did it. Hand pointing up, magic circle there, hand glowing there. Then he noticed thick and dark clouds appearing in the inside of the building, right there in the training room. He'd notice the snow falling, but soon it would fade away prematurely again.
Thats when he remembered "Aha, ah yeah. I need to actually use my magic energy to keep it up" he thought out verbally
And thus repeated the same motions, with that in mind. Point up to the sky, magic circle appears, hand glows blue. He'd notice the clouds appear and soon enough it was snowing.
Now the challenge was maintaining the spell. He'd notice the snow finally beginning to form on the ground. He felt guilty of bringing a blizzard in the guild hall or its training room but it was a necessary evil
He sat down on the ground, in the typical meditating position. Closed his eyes and focused on how much he could maintain the Snow spell.
He started to readjust to the cold once more as he felt he was finally coming back to his element. He trained the spell and remembered things from his past. It was starting to slowly come back. He even had a spell that would combine with snow.
Now he was happy, he mastered or relearned one spell
461 (10% wc reduction due to 14 int)
Spell Learned: Snow