This frequency of English localization issues is unacceptable

[GrizzlyTank]

It doesn't make it clear, it literally talks about the former bearer, which is, by meaning of the word bearer, the person who carried it on them, the person in whose possession it was. Which was not Azem until recently.
This has nothing to do with being pedantic, it has something to do with wrong terminology being used in this instance. The former bearer could never be Azem. It is impossible, so it is wrong to call them that.

In this case bearer would mean something like bearing a badge or banner. Yes Emet made the crystal, yes he carried it around. But he never bore it himself, for he would always be the one bearing the Emet-Selch crystal.

While Azem, even though he/she left the seat, and never were given a physical possession of the crystal before we got it, bore his/her title always.