Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25345262-20160724231934/@comment-1916997-20160725203455

Eskaver wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: ItachiIshtar wrote: You know, after thinking about this, there actually is another possibility that nobody else seems to have considered. Maybe Maleficent lied, when she told Lily that she didn't know who her father was? Perhaps Maleficent and Lily's father had some sort of huge falling out, and would rather spare Lily from finding out who he is? Which would mean that perhaps Lily's conception didn't happen in dragon form after all. That would be an interesting twist. And that means that almost anyone can be Lily's father. It wpuldn't in a degree because the notion on all shows is "Assume the truth". How is this show going about with "Assume a lie"? Well, it's not through convincing storytelling but "retcon"/ Shamalyan levels of "What a Twist".

But it is a lie that makes sense for Mal to tell. If Mal doesn't want Lily to meet her father (and there could be many reasons for why that is), then the easiest way to keep Lily from finding him is to lie and say she doesn't know who he is, and that he impregnated her when they were both in dragon form.