Sylvari: Plant people who grow on a tree.Driven from their underground civilisation by Primordus at the end of Guild Wars, they now control much of the Tarnished Coast from their breathtaking floating city, and shrewdly leverage their position as the local Higher-Tech Species to compensate both for their small stature and their small numbers. Asura: A diminutive, big-eared, formerly subterranean race consisting of insufferable geniuses, responsible for the Asura Gates and various other nifty magical technologies.They have reclaimed Ascalon from humanity and now reside there. Half blood knights and half egomaniac hunters, with a strong streak of self-determination. Charr: A ferocious and feline race who were enemies in the first game.Driven south by the frost dragon, Jormag, they make their home in the Southern Shiverpeaks. Norn: The oversized but otherwise human-like race of proud and philosophical Norse warriors, capable of transforming into the forms of animals.Their once-great kingdoms in Tyria have largely fallen to ruin, with Kryta being the only remaining and the home of the modern heroes. Humans: The same old humans played in the original game.The Trinity site is currently opened to the public by the National Park Service twice a year. Remnants of the observation points 10,000 yards out are also still visible. The remnants of the base camp where some 200 scientists, soldiers, and technicians took up temporary residence during the summer of 1945 is about ten miles southwest of ground zero. The restored McDonald ranch house, where the device's plutonium core was assembled, is located about two miles to the south. Outside the fenced-in ground zero area lies "Jumbo," the 214-ton steel container built to contain the plutonium if the 5,300 pounds of high explosives in the bomb detonated but no nuclear explosion resulted. Only a few pieces of the green glass, trinitite, remain in a protected enclosure. A slightly depressed area several hundred yards across surrounds the monument, indicating where the blast scoured the ground. Ground zero is marked by an obelisk made of black lava rock, with an attached commemorative sign. The Trinity site is now part of the White Sands Missile Range and is owned by the U.S.
The success of the Trinity test meant that an atomic bomb using plutonium could be readied for use by the U.S. Seconds after the explosion came an enormous blast, sending searing heat across the desert and knocking observers to the ground. over the New Mexico desert, releasing 18.6 kilotons of power, instantly vaporizing the tower and turning the surrounding asphalt and sand into green glass. Robert Oppenheimer code-named the test "Trinity." Hoisted atop a 100-foot tower, the plutonium device, or "Gadget," detonated at precisely 5:30 a.m. The world's first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the barren plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, known as the Jornada del Muerto.
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