Copper Dragons are masters of stealth, slipping silently and swiftly through the forests and jungles where they live. Often hunting in groups, their prey rarely know they are being stalked until the dragon’s at their throat. In the air they are agile and skilled. Copper Dragons prize family groups, spending large amounts of time teaching their young skills. So great is their love of life and family that they will sometimes adopt orphaned dragons of other breeds to raise.

Dragons are highly-intelligent reptilian creatures that—from a human perspective, at least—appear to live forever. Many different varieties of dragon exist, each with their own unique qualities, habitats, and behavior. Adolescence in dragons is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. In Galsreim, dragons and humans coexist peacefully.

A proud, studious intellect, Schyller has taken it upon himself to raise the Breedery's hatchlings. He doesn't go out of his way to guard or protect them per se—that job falls to others—but their education and general minding fall to him more often than not. Even when specific dragons have favorites or adopted charges, Schyller is the default tutor for anything the foster parent dragon(s) don't teach. For his part, Schyller sees the job as nothing less than his due, and himself as the most important dragon in the Breedery. After all, he does control the minds of every new generation, in a way. He isn't as influential or as good a teacher as he imagines himself to be, so it's good that most of this arrogance is unconscious. If he expressed it aloud his feelings would be hurt by the humorous reaction of most of the other adult Breedery dragons. Schyller is far from stupid, of course, but in his own mind, he's a world-class scholar. His pompous arrogance is thus faintly ridiculous.