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I don't think that Tenel Ka will die (except if Allana is on the backcover of Backlash, then I will take that claim back) but Tahiri and Kyp (plus Raynar) are very likely candidates. Kyp seems like the perfect sacrifice, relatively major but for a long time little used character, whose death will count as a big event, but won't produce a negative response at the same level as that of Anakin and Jacen's. One could say the same about Tahiri, who also killed relatively popular character in the old Imperial war criminal Pellaeon, and you usually can't be redeemed and survive after killing a relatively major established "good" character, it's redemption and a heroic death for you, and a delayed case of that could well hit Tahiri. When it comes to Raynar, I think that he has been brought back to give ammunition to Daala. Denning spared him once - probably just because it was already decided that Jacen would be killed, the prototype of LotF Jacen, Bug Raynar got to live - but might well kill him now.

I would like Tahiri especially to survive, and don't want to see Kyp dying either. I don't particularly like any major or major supporting character to die in Denning's novels, because of his habit of mutilatiion and prolonged, agonizing deaths. Well, perhaps he could write Ben's death scene eventually, I would be ok with that...

One Jedi character I expect to die sooner than later in FotJ is Kenth Hamner, who appears to have been made into a Jedi version of Borsk Fey'lya. First bumbling and then a heroic death. I do hope that Denning doesn't give the suicide bombing to us a third time, but kills Hamner in some different way.

Odds for their deaths in Abyss and Backlash in my opinion:

Tahiri 75 %, Kyp 50 %, Raynar 50 %, Hamner 50 % (but 99 % before the end of FotJ), Tenel Ka 10 %.

Of course, there's a black horse candidate to a major death in Abyss. The lady in the cover. Leia. I give her chance to die as 10 %.

Assumptions.