Most of my characters can start fine. For Astral Skaldi the game crashes with "unexpected error ... Exiting Final Fantasy XIV.(17)
This started when I just got to Stormblood. I was in Quest "Lyse Takes the Lead". I talked to her right before going into Rhalgr's Reach. Lyse was done and her Quest Icon should have gone away and she should have walked away (so I could follow into Rhalgr's Reach.
Instead the quest icon stayed and she was frozen. My character could move, but the game instantly crashed.
Now when I try to start this character the screen appears but it is frozenand I get the same error.
I've updated my graphic driver.
Rebooted; tried DX9; tried Windowed mode; tried removing the FFXIV folder in Documents/My Games. Nothing helps.

System inf:


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