Post patch 1.39 sepermeru is empty

Game mode: Singleplayer offline mode
Problem: Bugs. Missing Npcs
Region: N America

Post patch 1 39 sepermeru is 95% empty cept for Conan and dancers. There are extremely few others in town.
My castle is 100 yards east from the altar of set. I had no issues being this close to town before.
The wheel of pain is empty and thats way on the far west side of town so I don’t think its my base.

Steps on how to reproduce issue:
1.Log in
2.Restart game same results everytime, npcs never return.
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Update
So 3 days later I FINALLY get my first purge to trigger and sepermeru is repopulated.
Then 2 min into the purge, game crashes…

Now sepermeru is empty again .