I do infact have a saved game that will bypass this horrible error. Its right after said loading screen. My friend supplied me with this one. She said she loaded the Hacked english language version (basically the german version with english subs) and it worked for the official english version. I know, I'm playing it currently!
Try not to complain so bad about the name and appearance as you can go to the illusionist and change said things in the tutorial area.
My only complaint about this, is that it may lock up when using the waypoints later in the game. So please; try to save your games as much as possible! I lost over 3 hours of work due to that! I am not sure if this waypoint loading freeze is similar in nature to this one or entirely random in nature, but I can say that this saved game does indeed work for me. I hope it does work for you all as well!
