I believe any crash at this start comes from conflicting replacers. For example, I had Adonnay's weapon replacer installed, which was causing many items to have missing textures in Castle Cousland. Once removed, I was able to get past the cutscene. *Short-term strange fix - another person had similar problems, even if you cannot find where the conflict is, you can often just press "escape" a bunch at game start to get past the Human Noble cutscene, and drops you right in the first sentence response to Arl Eamon. You really have to press escape nonstop for this to work though. I advise instead finding the conflicting mods/files and removing one of them.