@Nemaisare: Taula gets along better with animals than people, owed mostly to the fact she doesn't treat them like pets. Being an Ormrammr demands a certain respect for the natural world from her else she fail to 'shapestrong' during battle. Sir would have what amounts to a very uncomplicated relationship with Taula; time, intuition and his keen read on her 'uncultured' nature having worked in the beast's favor. It's less a friendship and more an understanding of each other's boundaries and position within the King's 'pack'; Taula's cowing presence and function as a hunter an easier idea for the animal to consume than the dubious utility of Erasmus' many serfs, vassals and courtiers. Here's some bite sized fluff:
*On rare occasions they've stalked game together, it wasn't often her work kept close enough to the capital for him to follow.
*She's never given Sir so much as a belly rub or table scrap but has always allowed the Anan its fair share of a kill.
*More than once they've been perfectly justified in biting one another.
*Taula's the sort of person that growls back
*Taula gets Riven the same thing each and every year for her nameday. A wheel of smoked cheese. Strangely, the breath of Castle Altranor’s dogs always reeks of smoked cheese whenever that date rolls around.
*Sir has learned from experience that eating the huntmaster's 'special' mushrooms is a bad idea. Dogs don't like to trip.

@Raptorman: In regards to Taula and Lin'Lise the two couldn't be further from friends, her gut just never lets her drop her guard around the woman. Polar opposites they'd just rub each other the wrong way in almost every interaction, I wouldn't be surprised if Taula reminded the Vyrndarian healer of all her father's most abrasive qualities. Estengauks nevertheless adhere to an eye for an eye mentality in all things and as such deliver onto friend and foe alike what each is owed; Lin'Lise, being a master of mending wounds and manipulating others, is sure to have capitalized on this.

@Chromane: She and Roderick have a wealth of common ground in everything from personalities and age to childhoods molded by the grim give and take of life in the wild. Taken with how readily he'll feel his way through a situation rather than think on it Taula considers him a more practical man than most and finds him just mysterious enough to be interesting. Unlike Nykerius and his incantations Estengauks such as herself consider sympathetic magic to be more 'natural' than its academic counterpart, though no less inglorious a tool.