Editing Pacha the Earthquake (section)

==The Great Crusade==
As soon as Pacha was deemed to be weapons-competent, the Emperor introduced him to the Primarch of the IV<sup>th</sup> Legion, Linares. When the two first met, the Earthquake's intuition screamed at him to not trust his brother, as if he had perceived a psychic echo of the two's cultures' previous first encounter. However, Pacha decided to give his brother a chance, and Linares proved to be a true ally and the two's personalities meshed together perfectly, and so did the Golden Mountains' newfound inclination for cooking with the [[Silver Blades]]' love for quality spirits. The two became brothers not only in name, but in their mutual treatment, and so did the two Legions' marines. This, however, caused the Primarch to stop fully trusting his intuition, as this time it had been completely wrong.

Pacha took well to his Legion's preferred tactics, with a focus on melee combat and use of minor psyker powers, which were well complemented with the introduction of Plant Singing techniques from Pacha's homeworld to his legion's psykers. However, the Primarch disagreed with the Librarium being placed into a separate power structure, and thus mostly integrated it into the main Legion; his psychically-gifted children being just differentiated by their pauldrons painted a dark purple instead of black. Pacha's naturally humble, simple nature allowed him to easily get close with the locals of any planet his Legion conquered (if a diplomatic integration wasn't possible), allowing him to easily cause the conquered population's loyalty to switch towards the Imperium with ease. The Primarch was the one responsible for bringing Catachan into the fold, the regiment to be recruited from the planet turning twice as deadly when they learned the ways of Plantsinging, becoming able to use the death world's flora as rather deadly weapons.

Similarly, his friendly and open personality caused Pacha to maintain at the very least cordial (if not outright quite friendly) relationships with his fellow Primarchs, Mot Hadad and Zelbezis Dyestes being the only exception. With the former, it was almost a natural reaction to his personality; with the latter, a budding cordiality was destroyed when the Primarch of the Iron Guard insulted the Golden Mountains' cooking. Ultimately, Pacha grew closest to Linares, keeping not quite as close but very similarly affectionate relationships with [[Lambach Kropor]] of the Je'She of the Sentinels, Ashur of the Loxodontii, and Raj Vokar of the Titan Marchers. And while Pacha would get some intuitions about things being wrong with some of his brothers (or Ashur's Legion), he never acted upon them, thinking it'd be just like with Linares.

During the council of Nikea, Pacha made a simple and concise, yet clear and logical, defense of the use of psyker powers in the Legion. When the Edict was formalized, the Primarch quickly reorganized his Legion, moving the psyker specialists amongst his children to safer, or outright noncombat roles when possible, as to protect them from harm when deprived of their specializations during combat.

During the Ullanor campaign, under the prong led by Je'She. During the fight, however, Pacha's psychic senses screamed to him when the Emperor was felled by Warboss Urlakk Urg. In a mad rush to save his father, Pacha let his psychic powers flare with his welling emotions, and called all his psyker children to be teleported in, free to deploy their powers as they knew best. This quickly turned the tide in favor of the Golden Mountains, yet utilmately Pacha was unable to affect the outcome.

Yet, he had openly and clearly breached the edict of Nikea, and thus was to be punished. However, what was meant to be a slap on the wrist turned into a massacre when Isekho's estimations of the chemicals needed to knock out a Space Marine of the likes that the Golden Mountains had turned out to be accurate, but for marines which didn't have an until then undiscovered geneseed flaw amongst the Golden Mountains, making them just as vulnerable to poisons as any unaugmented human (with a marine's constitution) would be. When Pacha reached Isekho and promptly informed the Primarch of the Smoke Stalkers of what was going on, the fight ended, but the Golden Mountains had already lost a rather large portion of their marines, and Isekho's marines had suffered plenty of casualties from when Pacha's children realized that their brothers were dying and started retaliating with lethal force. After Isekho effectively fled the planet, Pacha rounded up his surviving children, set up a proper burial for the fallen ones, and retreated to Suyu IV, in order to rebuild his Legion's numbers.