Valor - Vikram means valorous
Encased in bronze -Vikram is copper and bronze, and bronze is a copper/tin alloy
Half - In general usage, hybrid is synonymous with heterozygous: any offspring resulting from the mating of two distinctly homozygous individuals. Vikrams mother was a dragon, his father a horse - doesn't get much more distinct than that
Of what you seem. - He looks very draconic, but is in fact half horse as well