Personally I think the one of the biggest reasons there will never be an anime adaptation of the manga is just the fact that they'd have to draw Wormhandlers at all. Their design seems like an animator's worst nightmare
The fact about the Erdtree Greatshield's roots glowing in the Shaman Village has long since been debunked, but in case you weren't convinced, some other shields have a similar effect. Especially the Silver Mirrorshield, which is more or less identical
Just learned that you can go straight to the DLC without sitting at the grace and spawning Leda, I wonder if anyone has done that by accident in their first playthrough. Makes me wonder what she was doing before Mohg died, it would have been so cool if they had added her as a summon for his fight