/lit/ - Literature

it's been 27 years jesus fuck George

Is it fair to set up fantasy mystery elements that the audience will want to solve if the solution is something that completely depends on internal fantasy logic rather than real life parallels and can't exactly be guessed.

For example imagine if the origin of the Others in ASOIAF was something abstract and metaphysical like "they're the frozen tears of an ice god angry with humanity given life" instead of the logical guesses like aliens, fallen humans, an ancient elf race, magic robots, etc. I guess you could put in foreshadowing and hints for the ice god tears but it just doesn't feel satisfying to me.