Has anyone else encountered a bug with ShadowGuard, where you are told to meet your father, you go to the council chambers and two other guys are there but not your father?

A cutscene starts but nothing happens, I suspect because everyone is waiting for you non-existent father to talk…

Only played it once and that didn't happen, no.

Not there specifically, but a lot of the modules have triggers that fail to trigger if something happens at the wrong moment. Usually everything works if you go to an older save and try again. Which is why it's important to keep plenty of different save files.

It's probably also possible to trigger the thing through console, but you'd need to know what to trigger and that'd pretty much mean the author would need to tell it.