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I don't think your readers would just except that gravity is just smudged across the planet. Sure, some fantasy has iffy rules and little explanation, but something like this smacks more of high fantasy or even scifi.
You don't need to have a geologist character boring your characters, but some level of lore explaining folke reasons for the variation is going to color your world and sell it.
It will absolutely help to have some hint at an explanation
But if the world is not at the the technological level required to figure it out then it wouldn't make any sense for them to explain it scientifically
They could perhaps explain it as it is this way because the gods made it this way, or because it's fantasy it actually could be because the gods made it that way (hence my magic space cthulu comment)