Gaius and the two Ascian. Dawntrail/8.0 Spoiler

[Cleretic]

A comment I saw today made me check on that 2.3 cutscene again and how the number didn't make sense at all. There's 15 occupied seats. There should have only been 13 of them with Azem having left to be Meteor. Could that comment have been right that it's distinctly possible one of Azem's other shards is working as an Ascian? But that still doesn't answer the plot hole of there being a 15th. This is really bugging/sticking with me now.

...oh my god, how have we never noticed that!? You're right--we never get a clear shot of the whole 'room', but if you count out all of the seats, there's very clearly seven on each side.

I very much doubt we can call this evidence of anything other than 'this scene was before they cemented the Ascian plan we know', because they've been enforcing the idea of there being thirteen Ascians for ages, but I do think it's absolutely hilarious how we've spent years dissecting that scene for clues and never even noticed there's an incorrect number of seats.