Ahs. You have asked my opinion....so you bring this on yourself

You know what Charmeh's favorite thing is? Dram a. Well not in RL, but here? Yeeees. Drama. Emotional drama. Oooohhh, I loves the emotional scarring, yes I do *cackles*
Now ,what CAUSES such a thing? Well. My personal favorite is sickness. Oh yes

Making charries sick is always fun. Especially....oh yes, specially if it causes a dragonrider utter despair....and what would cause more sadness than to lose your dragon? Mwahaha...yes, yes, that would be the ultimate fun to play out
xD sorry. I got myself plotting. If you wanted to have some sort of sickness hit Solace you'd never get a nay from me. But that's already an integral part of the plot anyway, plus plagues are all to common, really. My personal favorite, but perhaps not the best for Solace....hm....
Natural disasters are good. And ones you don't always see on Pern RPGs. Other than Thread, that is. Fire. Tornado/hurricane. Earthquakes. I don't know, anything. Anything with an aftermath

Anything people can die in. Or at least be wounded. You know. Anything that adds the fear that Thread will come soon and they won't be prepared.
Um. What else? There's always the fun idea of something forcing the Solacers (Solacites? Solacese?) to take sides....leadership struggle is always a good way of doing that, but somewhat overused.
Blargh. Anything with destruction and angst - oh yes, I loves the angst - is just fine with me. In fact if some terrible thing does hit Solace I might just make a charrie only to end up killing them off/crippling them somehow for the fun of it (as, as much of an arse Tol is, I'm fond of him and don't want to ravage him and Banksiath much

). *shrugs* I'd love to see with ideas others come up with, 'cause frankly I don't have many original ideas. Ideas, yes....unique...well, not really.
But something
bad, oh, yes, Charm yearns for something bad

*cough* but maybe I'm just a morbid person XD