I tried the UNCL.TTF fix, but it wasn't in my fonts directory. I lowered the resolution and this delayed the crash by a minute, but I still was not able to finish the character creation.
One thing I noticed was that one of my cores was always running at 90-100% during character creation.
Also, where is the error.log file located? I looked in the PillarsOfEternity_Data, my user directory and AppData, but couldn't find it.